Analysing contemporary art

It’s Just an Unmade Bed: Why Tracey Emin (Amongst Others) Fails as an Artist

Artworks need to tell us something unusual and unexpected, not simply reflect what we already know

Jakob Zaaiman
9 min readApr 1, 2021

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Tracey Emin ‘My Bed’ 1998 (Source: Wikiart)

The problem in a word: that there are a number of celebrated ‘artists’ out there who are in fact not…

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