Tracey Emin 20 Years [Paperback]

Patrick Elliott (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 16, 2009

Published to accompany the first UK retrospective of Emin's work, covering her output during the last 20 years.

Product Details

• Paperback: 152 pages
• Publisher: National Galleries Of Scotland (February 16, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1906270082
• ISBN-13: 978-1906270087
• Product Dimensions: 10.3 x 9.6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,317,889 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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This review is from: Tracey Emin 20 Years (Paperback)

Tracey Emin could be a character right out of Ayn Rand's "The Fountainhead," a person of little or no real artistic talent foisted upon a gullible public as an "art superstar," to quote one fashion magazine. I've seen her 'work'...pretentious rubbish that any idiot could do, if his or her pride was sufficiently low. What is gained by lowering the standards of art? FYI, here's the relevant passage: "Here's another. Kill man's sense of values. Kill his capacity to recognise greatness or to achieve it. Great men can't be ruled. We don't want any great men. Don't deny conception of greatness. Destroy it from within. The great is the rare, the difficult, the exceptional. Set up standards of achievement open to all, to the least, to the most inept - and you stop the impetus to effort in men, great or small. You stop all incentive to improvement, to excellence, to perfection. Laugh at Roark and hold Peter Keating as a great architect. You've destroyed architecture. Build Lois Cook and you've destroyed literature. Hail Ike and you've destroyed the theatre. Glorify Lancelot Clankey and you've destroyed the press. Don't set out to raze all shrines - you'll frighten men, Enshrine mediocrity - and the shrines are razed" (Ayn Rand, "The Fountainhead"). Buy "The Fountainhead" from Amazon and read more!