Why was Tracey Emin’s bed a shock to the audience?


Tracey Emin's messy bed goes on display at Tate for first time in 15 years Art and design

Tracey Emin's My Bed returned to Tate Britain fifteen years after the work saw her nominated for the Turner Prize. It was displayed alongside paintings by Fr.


Tracey Emins My Bed naar Tate Digitale Kunstkrant

One of Tracey Emin's best known and most controversial works, My Bed, first made in 1998 and once in private hands, is now on long loan to Tate and on display at Tate Britain.


Tracey Emin's My Bed set for long Tate loan BBC News

Tracey Emin's "My Bed" proudly displays the artist's dirty laundry in public. The artist's most famous piece of art was created in 1999. It ignored society's expectations of women by demonstrating the reality of the female experience at the turn of the millennium. Whilst creating quite the outcry, this conceptual art piece created a.


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British artist Tracey Emin caused a media sensation when she exhibited her dirty, unmade bed as a work of installation art to the public, titling it simply My Bed, 1998.


Why was Tracey Emin’s bed a shock to the audience?

Fri 27 Oct 2017 05.00 EDT Bedtime stories With My Bed, Tracey Emin turned one of her life's great low points, a bedbound drinking spree, into a theatrical arrangement worthy of Jacobean.


Tracey Emin's My Bed on display at Turner Contemporary in Margate, as part of our autumn 2017

In 1998, Tracey Emin made her best known and controversial work My Bed by exposing her own bed after a depressive episode and an emotional breakdown.


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Fri 16 Sep 2016 08.37 EDT T racey Emin throws her knickers on to the bed. She's not quite satisfied, so she retrieves them and has another go. It takes five increasingly athletic throws and a.


Tracey Emin My Bed, 1998, box frame, mattress, linens, pillows and various objects, overall

Perfect bedfellows Tracey Emin and Francis Bacon. One of Tracey Emin's best known and most controversial works, My Bed, first made in 1998 and once in private hands, is now on long loan to Tate and on display at Tate Britain. To accompany its return to the gallery (it was first shown in the Turner Prize display in 1999), Emin has selected two.


Artist Tracey Emin's controversial artwork My Bed is coming to Margate

In 1998 the British artist Tracey Emin spent several days languishing in bed as the result of depression. When she emerged, she decided to turn the experience into art and the result was My Bed, an installation that consisted of her unmade bed and an assortment of sundry personal items associated with her time spent there.


Why I love Tracey Emin's bed Fisun Güner

When Tracey Emin aired her dirty laundry in the 1999 Turner Prize exhibition at Tate Britain, she set a new standard for confessional art. She conceived of the installation, titled My Bed (1998), after a long, bedridden bender following a bad break-up. When Emin finally left her sheets, she examined the mess she'd created.


News Tracey Emin's bed returns to London

In 1998 the British artist Tracey Emin spent several days languishing in bed as the result of depression. When she emerged, she decided to turn the experience into art and the result was My Bed, an installation that consisted of her unmade bed and an assortment of sundry personal items associated with her time spent there.


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The piece was made by Emin in 1998 when she was living in a council flat in Waterloo. It shows her real bed at the time in all its embarrassing glory, with used condoms, dirty underwear and.


The World's Most Infamous Unmade Bed Is Up For Auction For 2 Million HuffPost Entertainment

Artist. Tracey Emin born 1963. Medium. Box frame, mattress, linens, pillows and various objects. Dimensions. Overall display dimensions variable. Collection. Lent by The Duerckheim Collection 2015. On long term loan.


Tracey Emin's bed returns to the Tate after record sale The Independent

My Bed is an iconic and seminal artwork by British artist Tracey Emin. It was created over 20 years ago and despite its age, it is still one of contemporary art's most striking depictions of vulnerability. It is a box-frame wooden bed with a mattress and white linen (stained).


Tracey Emin's My Bed on display at Turner Contemporary in Margate, as part of our autumn 2017

Few artists feel as woven into the fabric of British contemporary art as Tracey Emin. Margate's most famous export has been a household name ever since her modest box frame bed, with its rumpled sheets and sundry surrounding objects telegraphing despair, was exhibited as part of the 1999 Turner Prize.


Tracey Emin's My Bed on display at Turner Contemporary in Margate, as part of our autumn 2017

In an interview last week, Tracey Emin described the process of getting My Bed ready to go back on display at Tate Britain, climbing beneath its sheets to restore them to the correct degree.