Yet for some women, such as the Spice Girls, she was the pioneer of their ideology of girl power.
The hard ladder up which she had climbed was drawn up and not extended to other women. Born in Grantham in Lincolnshire, United Kingdom, she went to school at Kesteven and Grantham Girls' School in Grantham, where she. She is the only woman to have held either post. It is suggested that although Thatcher had to struggle against many of the sexist prejudices of her day to achieve her political ambitions, she was no feminist. Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. Overall, it is concluded that Thatcher was a polarising figure whose legacy is one of much divisiveness, in which the divisions between women is only one of many strands.ĪB - This article considers the legacy for women of Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013), Britain's first and to date only woman prime minister. It is suggested that although Thatcher had to struggle against many of the sexist prejudices of her day to achieve her political ambitions, she was no feminist. N2 - This article considers the legacy for women of Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013), Britain's first and to date only woman prime minister. The German collector subsequently agreed to loan My Bed to the Tate for ten years, saying in a statement: “I always admired the honesty of Tracey, but I bought My Bed because it is a metaphor for life, where troubles begin and logics die.” The work went on show at Tate Britain in 2015, together with six drawings Emin donated to the museum and two paintings by Francis Bacon, and at Turner Contemporary, in Emin's hometown of Margate, in 2017.T1 - What Was Margaret Thatcher's Legacy for Women? Saatchi sold the installation at Christie’s in 2014 for £2.5m to White Cube gallery owner Jay Jopling, who was bidding on behalf of his client, Count Christian Duerckheim. Being an artist is always about being yourself but not necessarily what others expect of you.” Something I never dreamt would be possible. The artist had created the work in her Waterloo council flat after a bout of suicidal depression following the breakdown of a relationship.Įmin says: “That meeting changed everything for me… The sale of the bed was my deposit for a house. A year earlier, Emin had been nominated for the Turner Prize for the installation of an unmade bed, strewn with empty vodka bottles, cigarette butts and discarded condoms. Saatchi bought My Bed (1998) for a reported £150,000 in 2000. “Just as I was leaving… he said ‘One last thing, promise me you’ll never make another one’.” Laughing, Emin says she couldn’t agree to Saatchi’s request: “Don’t be mad… of course I’m going to make another one… everyday… it’s my bed.” “We shook hands and it was agreed that he would buy the bed,” she says. But, in 2019, she spoke out against Brexit and former Tory prime ministers David Cameron and Theresa May.ĭespite their differences, Emin says she hit it off with Saatchi. The UNs The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination. To which Saatchi replied: “My girl… I do ad campaigns for everything… even Tampax.” Emin retorted: “Well you should have stuck to tampons, it would have been more honourable.” Emin has since flip flopped her views on the Conservatives, publicly announcing that she had switched allegiance from Labour to the Tories a decade ago. Margaret Thatcher becomes the first woman in history to ever hold the role of UK Prime Minister. When Saatchi asked Emin why she had refused to sell him her work, Emin replied that it was because he had put Thatcher in power. Thatcher won a landslide election, beginning 18 years of Conservative rule. The strap line read: “Labour isn’t working”, and underneath, in smaller type, “Britain’s better off with the Tories”. In 1979, Saatchi had helped Margaret Thatcher rocket to power with a political poster showing a dole queue snaking out from an employment office. Breaking the chocolate bar in half, he offered a finger to Emin, telling her to “take a break, have a KitKat!” She adds: “I think it must have been one of his ad campaigns at the time.”īut it was another advertising campaign which had proved to be a real sticking point for Emin. “When I got there he was just leaving, I was sweating because I’d been running!” Emin says. In a characteristically frank anecdote Emin posted on Instagram, together with a photograph of her cats Teacup and Pancake on her bed, she recounts how she was 20 minutes late for her meeting with Saatchi outside a coffee shop off Cork Street in Mayfair. Tracey Emin has revealed how she first met the advertising mogul and YBA collector Charles Saatchi, when he managed to sweeten the deal he made to buy her unmade bed with a Kit Kat.
0 kommentar(er)
