Overview
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ā[Lauren] Elkin is a stylish, determined provocateur . . . Sharp and cool . . . [Art Monsters is] exemplary. It describes a whole way to live, worthy of secret admiration.ā āMaggie Lange, The Washington Post
āDestined to become a new classic . . . Elkin shatters the truisms that have evolved around feminist thought.ā āChris Kraus, author of I Love Dick and After Kathy Acker: A Literary Biography
What kind of art does a monster make? And what if monster is a verb? Noun or a verb, the idea is a dare: to overwhelm limits, to invent our own definitions of beauty.
In this dazzlingly original reassessment of womenās stories, bodies, and art, Lauren Elkināthe celebrated author of FlĆ¢neuseāexplores the ways in which feminist artists have taken up the challenge of their work and how they not only react against the patriarchy but redefine their own aesthetic aims. How do we tell the truth about our experiences as bodies? What is the language, what are the materials, that we need to transcribe them? And what are the unique questions facing those engaged with female bodies, queer bodies, sick bodies, racialized bodies?
Encompassing a rich genealogy of work across the literary and artistic landscape, Elkin makes daring links between disparate points of referenceāamong them Julia Margaret Cameronās photography, Kara Walkerās silhouettes, Vanessa Bellās portraits, Eva Hesseās rope sculptures, Carolee Schneemannās body art, Theresa Hak Kyung Chaās trilingual masterpiece DICTEEāand steps into the tradition of cultural criticism established by Susan Sontag, HĆ©lĆØne Cixous, and Maggie Nelson.
An erudite, potent examination of beauty and excess, sentiment and touch, the personal and the political, the ambiguous and the opaque, Art Monsters is a radical intervention that forces us to consider how the idea of the art monster might transform the way we imagineāand enactāour lives.
This book title, Art Monsters (Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art), ISBN: 9781250338013, by Lauren Elkin, published by Picador (November 12, 2024) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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