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Article: Prize that remains a head-turner Love it or loathe it, for over 20 years the Turner Prize has brought the contemporary art debate into the mainstream. But will the winning works be able to stand the test of time, asks SUSAN MANSFIELD
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- The Scotsman
- Article date:
- October 2, 2007
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'THE annual farce of the Turner Prize is now as inevitable in
November as is the pantomime at Christmas," wrote the art critic
Brian Sewell in 1992. And for more than a decade he was right. The
tabloids could retread the same jokes every year. Elephant dung?
Unmade beds? Pickled farm animals? It must be the Turner.
In recent years, however, they've had less to get their teeth
into, causing speculation that the country's most famous art prize
has gone respectable. In 2005, one newspaper played on the irony:
"Turner Prize shocker: the favourite is a woman who paints flowers.
Whatever next?"
The artist in question - Gillian Carnegie - didn't win. It took
Scotland's Simon Starling and a ...