Sticky Emotions - by Carolin A Heel (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

This publication compares the two artists Tracey Emin and Richie Culver, both of whom deal with themes such as emotionality, authenticity, and gender images. The starting points are self-staging and public responses to Emin's and Culver's artistic work. How do culturally encoded emotions, autobiographical narratives, and gender images intertwine in the two oeuvres? Does Culver's work reveal the appropriation of a previously female-encoded emotionality, or a shift towards a gender-neutral artistic identity? A comparative reading of their work highlights specific modes of self-presentation and affective addressing - in the field of tension between subjectivity, pop culture, and art-historical inscription.

• First academic monograph on Richie Culver
• Shows the social relevance of the issues addressed, as well as the construction of emotions, gender and identity in the context of cultural and media upheaval
• Innovative gender-reflective perspective on artistic practice

About the Author

Carolin Heel, art historian and curator, studied art education with a focus on painting/graphics and intermedia art (performance) as well as fine art at the art academies in Karlsruhe and Stuttgart. She received her doctorate in art history from the State Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe (ABK Karlsruhe). As a postdoctoral researcher, she worked on the DFG project "Visual Education" at the University of Hamburg. Her research focuses on affect and emotion theory, gender specificity, and theories of image and subjectivity in contemporary art.