Article: Art: They'll have to give it to Elsie Tanner Matthew Collings says Tracey Emin's art for the world that real people inhabit deserves to win her this year's Turner Prize

P ants are the new dung for this year's Turner Prize. But Tracey Emin is not quite Chris Ofili, at least not for the critics. Last year they were amused by Ofili's dung-decorated paintings, but Emin they hate. They find her boring. They really are fed up with her. Yet it's her they really want to devote the column inches to this year. Why? Maybe it's because with her there's something to talk about. Through her the critics can make a shape out of what they would otherwise experience as an emptiness - that is, the Turner Prize itself and the world of contemporary art it stands for. Emin offers some content whereas the others in the show don't seem to. It's true they hate her content, but the ...

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