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On a print by Tracey Emin

Normally I don't go negative in these, but this one on the minutely talented British former 'infanta terible' starts on the dark side, before I manage to say something positive about one of her prints.   Subscribe to Praeterita in a reader

On Tracey Emin and Louise Bourgeois

'The Guardian' newspaper has an article on its arts page about a show of collaborative works between Tracey Emin and Louise Bourgeois . Only yesterday, I posted my latest web-talk about the late Ms. Bourgeois, so this is an interesting coincidence. My opinion of Tracey Emin has always been extremely low, and my opinion of Bourgeois extremely high. My reaction to Emin's work was already formed when my etching teacher in London, who worked on some prints with Emin, told me some very unflattering anecdotes about Emin which cast aspersions on, shall we say, her intellectual capacity. I made the mistake of recounting this story in full on someone's Facebook page recently, which earned me a perhaps deserved rebuke for being impolite. But Jonathan Jones, who wrote 'The Guardian' article, has exactly the opposite opinion. He responds positively to Emin, and Bourgeois leaves him cold. And I have to say, if Bourgeois thought Emin worthy of being in the same room as h...