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Strangeland: The memoirs of one of the most acclaimed artists of her generation
Tracey Emin
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Paperback. The intimate memoirs of one of the most acclaimed and controversial artists of her generation. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: AGB; BGA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 15. Weight in Grams: 156.
The intimate memoirs of one of the most acclaimed and controversial artists of her generation.
Here I am, a fucked, crazy, anorexic-alcoholic-childless, beautiful woman. I never dreamt it would be like this.
'Frequently affecting...intriguing, almost incantatory' Telegraph
Tracey Emin's Strangeland is her own space, lying between the Margate of her childhood, the Turkey of her forefathers and her own, private-public life in present-day London. Her writings, a combination of memoirs and confessions, are deeply intimate, yet powerfully engaging. Tracey retains a profoundly romantic world view, paired with an uncompromising honesty. Her capacity both to create controversies and to strike chords is unequalled in British life.
A remarkable book - and an original, beautiful mind.
'As spare and poignant as one of Emin's line drawings' Marie Claire
Product Details
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780340769461
SKU
V9780340769461
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About Tracey Emin
Tracey Emin was born in 1963 to an English mother and a Turkish father, and grew up in Margate. She left school at 15, but later studied Fine Art at Maidstone College and went on to the Royal College of Art. She is now an internationally renowned artist whose work has been exhibited in museums and galleries throughout the world. Several of her pieces, including 'Everyone I Have Ever Slept With', were featured in the 1997 'Sensation' exhibition at the Royal Academy, and in 1999 her work 'My Bed' was shortlisted for the Turner Prize. Strangeland is the first, full-length publication of her writing, which draws together new and revised work from the past 25 years.
Reviews for Strangeland: The memoirs of one of the most acclaimed artists of her generation
Her writings are painfully honest . . . Strangeland is more than Tracey's diary, just as her bed and her tent and her blankets are more than private displays that happen to have attracted a lot of attention
The Times
While her best-known art has shown Emin at her most confrontational, in her writing we meet a calmer, more sensitive soul.
Observer
A fantastically engaging storyteller . . . heartbreaking . . . effortlessly funny
Metro
As spare and poignant as one of Emin's line drawings
Marie Claire
Eccentrically readable
Glamour
Frequently affecting . . . read Emin for intriguing, almost incantatory sections on her travels to Turkey, the occasional shaft of two-fingers-up-at-the-world wit and the delight of seeing someone revel in vicious vengefulness
Daily Telegraph
Reveals a funny, sensitive and brave woman, challenging conventions
Grazia
Emin talks with brutal frankness . . . genuinely uplifting
Scotsman
An extraordinary piece of writing . . . Brace yourself. Let's say this is a memoir (and most of the time, it is, although her relationship to the truth is variable: incidents described here have been contradicted by her elsewhere); it couldn't be filmed. The director and half the cast would be arrested . . . she has played the hand she has been dealt as skilfully and tenaciously as anyone could have, while still retaining a belief in beauty. And Strangeland comes over as honest and extraordinary
Guardian
Written with a furious energy
Guardian
A raw and uncompromising read . . . but it is also a tale of hope and inspiration . . . her writings, a combination of memoirs and confessions, are deeply intimate, yet powerfully engaging. Tracey retains a profoundly romantic world view, paired with an uncompromising honesty. Her capacity both to create controversies and to strike chords is unequalled in British life. A remarkable book - and an original, beautiful mind
Evening Standard
A very readable book, and a surprising one too
Independent on Sunday
[An] odd and powerful memoir
Marina Warner
London Review of Books
A combination of memoir and confession and gives an insight into the mind of one of contemporary art's most intriguing figures
Evening Standard
Beautiful . . . as vivid a piece of writing about a childhood as you could hope to read - unguarded, open-hearted, shocking
Chris Harvey
Daily Telegraph
Strangeland is a surprisingly lyrical and tightly written account of its author's journey so far
Australian Vogue
Poignant and sensitive
Stylist
Emin writes with fierce clarity
Times Literary Supplement
An extremely well-written and readable book
Glasgow Herald
Strangeland should not . . . be approached as a memoir unless a memoir can be understood to be a Tracey Emin artwork. She is no fake
Rachel Cusk
Sunday Telegraph
Magical
Sunday Times
'A fantastically engaging storyteller... heartbreaking... effortlessly funny'
Metro
'As spare and poignant as one of Emin's line drawings'
Marie Claire
'A very readable book, and a surprising one too'
Independent on Sunday
'Eccentrically readable'
Glamour
'Frequently affecting...intriguing, almost incantatory'
Saturday Telegraph
'An extremely well-written and readable book'
Glasgow Herald
'Reveals a funny, sensitive and brave woman'
Grazia
'Emin talks with brutal frankness...genuinely uplifting'
Scotsman
'A natural oddball - or, to put it another way, instinctively eccentric'
Telegraph Magazine
'Strangeland should not...be approached as a memoir unless a memoir can be understood to be a Tracey Emin artwork. She is no fake'
Rachel Cusk, Sunday Telegraph
'[Emin's] writings are painfully honest...Strangeland is more than Tracey's diary, just as her bed and her tent and her blankets are more than private displays that happen to have attracted a lot of attention'
Jeanette Winterson, The Times
'While her best-known art has shown Emin as her most confrontational, in her writing we meet a calmer, more sensitive soul.'
Observer
'Strangeland is a surprisingly lyrical and tightly written account of its author's journey so far.'
Australian Vogue
'Emin writes with fierce clarity.'
Henry Hitchins, Times Literary Supplement
The Times
While her best-known art has shown Emin at her most confrontational, in her writing we meet a calmer, more sensitive soul.
Observer
A fantastically engaging storyteller . . . heartbreaking . . . effortlessly funny
Metro
As spare and poignant as one of Emin's line drawings
Marie Claire
Eccentrically readable
Glamour
Frequently affecting . . . read Emin for intriguing, almost incantatory sections on her travels to Turkey, the occasional shaft of two-fingers-up-at-the-world wit and the delight of seeing someone revel in vicious vengefulness
Daily Telegraph
Reveals a funny, sensitive and brave woman, challenging conventions
Grazia
Emin talks with brutal frankness . . . genuinely uplifting
Scotsman
An extraordinary piece of writing . . . Brace yourself. Let's say this is a memoir (and most of the time, it is, although her relationship to the truth is variable: incidents described here have been contradicted by her elsewhere); it couldn't be filmed. The director and half the cast would be arrested . . . she has played the hand she has been dealt as skilfully and tenaciously as anyone could have, while still retaining a belief in beauty. And Strangeland comes over as honest and extraordinary
Guardian
Written with a furious energy
Guardian
A raw and uncompromising read . . . but it is also a tale of hope and inspiration . . . her writings, a combination of memoirs and confessions, are deeply intimate, yet powerfully engaging. Tracey retains a profoundly romantic world view, paired with an uncompromising honesty. Her capacity both to create controversies and to strike chords is unequalled in British life. A remarkable book - and an original, beautiful mind
Evening Standard
A very readable book, and a surprising one too
Independent on Sunday
[An] odd and powerful memoir
Marina Warner
London Review of Books
A combination of memoir and confession and gives an insight into the mind of one of contemporary art's most intriguing figures
Evening Standard
Beautiful . . . as vivid a piece of writing about a childhood as you could hope to read - unguarded, open-hearted, shocking
Chris Harvey
Daily Telegraph
Strangeland is a surprisingly lyrical and tightly written account of its author's journey so far
Australian Vogue
Poignant and sensitive
Stylist
Emin writes with fierce clarity
Times Literary Supplement
An extremely well-written and readable book
Glasgow Herald
Strangeland should not . . . be approached as a memoir unless a memoir can be understood to be a Tracey Emin artwork. She is no fake
Rachel Cusk
Sunday Telegraph
Magical
Sunday Times
'A fantastically engaging storyteller... heartbreaking... effortlessly funny'
Metro
'As spare and poignant as one of Emin's line drawings'
Marie Claire
'A very readable book, and a surprising one too'
Independent on Sunday
'Eccentrically readable'
Glamour
'Frequently affecting...intriguing, almost incantatory'
Saturday Telegraph
'An extremely well-written and readable book'
Glasgow Herald
'Reveals a funny, sensitive and brave woman'
Grazia
'Emin talks with brutal frankness...genuinely uplifting'
Scotsman
'A natural oddball - or, to put it another way, instinctively eccentric'
Telegraph Magazine
'Strangeland should not...be approached as a memoir unless a memoir can be understood to be a Tracey Emin artwork. She is no fake'
Rachel Cusk, Sunday Telegraph
'[Emin's] writings are painfully honest...Strangeland is more than Tracey's diary, just as her bed and her tent and her blankets are more than private displays that happen to have attracted a lot of attention'
Jeanette Winterson, The Times
'While her best-known art has shown Emin as her most confrontational, in her writing we meet a calmer, more sensitive soul.'
Observer
'Strangeland is a surprisingly lyrical and tightly written account of its author's journey so far.'
Australian Vogue
'Emin writes with fierce clarity.'
Henry Hitchins, Times Literary Supplement