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Teach Yourself Turner Prize Criticism
Photography
| Plagiarism
| Rubbish
Remember the controversies of Turner Prizes past?
Here's our quick reminder of what the papers said:
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Familiar rubbish on Turner shortlist
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The Times |
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Last year the appearance of Martin Creed and Mike
Nelson on the shortlist focused criticism around the issue of rubbish
- and money. The Times reported
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A
sheet of A4 paper scrunched up into a ball has been sold for
£2,000
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by Creed, while Nelson
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assembles rubbish -
known in art circles as 'found objects' - to suggest scenarios
such as the aftermath of a crime
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Charles Thompson, a founder-member of the Stuckists,
a group campaigning for a return to more traditional forms of art,
said Creed's work exuded
while The Guardian's critic heard a painter at the
Turner Prize press conference attacking Mike Nelson's The Cosmic
Legend of the Uroboros Serpent
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I thought they were
the Tate's storerooms. But you tell me now that they are a work
of art. How could that be? So are the Tate's storerooms also
a work of art?
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The work exhibited by the winning artist, Martin Creed
(Work 227: The lights going on and off) was variously compared
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ongoing problems with
the Tate Gallery's electrics
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a recognised form of
torture
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It was, however, the work of one of the nominees who
didn't actually make it onto the shortlist - Michael Landy - that
provided what some saw as the most telling incident:
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his still life composition
of a bin full of rubbish at a London gallery was accidentally
thrown away by a cleaner
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