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Art Monsters

Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art

Lauren Elkin

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Vintage
30 July 2024
A landmark feminist intervention- a dazzlingly original reassessment of women's stories, bodies and art - and how we think about them.

'Destined to become a new classic' Chris Kraus

A dazzlingly original reassessment of women's stories, bodies and art - and how we think about them.

For decades, feminist artists have confronted the problem of how to tell the truth about their experiences as bodies. Queer bodies, sick bodies, racialised bodies, female bodies, what is their language, what are the materials we need to transcribe it?

Exploring the ways in which feminist artists have taken up this challenge, Art Monsters is a landmark intervention in how we think about art and the body. Weaving daring links between disparate artists and writers - from Julia Margaret Cameron's photography to Kara Walker's silhouettes, Vanessa Bell's portraits to Eva Hesse's rope sculptures - Lauren Elkin shows that their work offers a potent celebration of beauty and excess, sentiment and touch, the personal and the political.

'The Susan Sontag of her generation' Deborah Levy

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Imprint:   Vintage
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 129mm,  Spine: 23mm
Weight:   316g
ISBN:   9781529922554
ISBN 10:   1529922550
Pages:   368
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Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  ELT Advanced ,  Primary
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming

Lauren Elkin is the author of several books, including Fl neuse- Women Walk the City, a Radio 4 Book of the Week, a New York Times Notable Book of 2017, and a finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel award for the art of the essay. Her essays on art, literature, and culture have appeared in the London Review of Books, the New York Times, Granta, Harper's, Le Monde, Les Inrockuptibles, and Frieze, among others. She is also an award-winning translator, most recently of Simone de Beauvoir's previously unpublished novel The Inseparables. After twenty years in Paris, she now lives in London.

Reviews for Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art

'Destined to become a new classic' * Chris Kraus * 'Juxtaposes ideas, images, language, in a vivid collage that invites us to look more deeply' * Jeanette Winterson * 'Soaring and vivid ... it left me giddy with possibility' * Doireann Ní Ghríofa, author of A Ghost in the Throat  * 'A fascinating re-visioning and re-imagining of women artists who have used their bodies in all sorts of creative, subversive ways.' * Juliet Jacques * 'You won't find anything like this history, told in this way, anywhere else' * Lubaina Himid *


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