The Literature Network - Personal worst The new Tracey Emin exhibition demonstrates two things, says TOM LUBBOCK. The first is that she is unrivalled as the leading British art- world celebrity. The second is that she is a bad artist whose work is the equivalent of a massive sulk

Personal worst The new Tracey Emin exhibition demonstrates two things, says TOM LUBBOCK. The first is that she is unrivalled as the leading British art- world celebrity. The second is that she is a bad artist whose work is the equivalent of a massive sulk

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From: The Independent - London
Date: 20021112
Author:TOM LUBBOCK

Tracey Emin? Franz Kafka wrote a beautiful story called "Josephine the Singer or the Mouse-Folk", a story about a community of mice, as told by one of them, and of the central role in this community of a mouse called Josephine, who is a great public singer. Or is she? The narrator is uncertain. "Is it singing at all? Is it not perhaps just a squeaking? And squeaking is something we all know about. We all squeak, but of course, no one dreams of calling it art, we squeak without thinking of it... if that were true, then indeed Josephine's alleged vocal skill might be disproved, but that would ...

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Personal worst The new Tracey Emin exhibition demonstrates two things, says TOM LUBBOCK. The first is that she is unrivalled as the leading British art- world celebrity. The second is that she is a bad artist whose work is the equivalent of a massive sulk

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