Art Monsters

Art Monsters

by Lauren Elkin
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 20/07/2023

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**'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

ISBN:
9781473566507
9781473566507
Category:
The arts: general issues
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
20-07-2023
Language:
English
Publisher:
Random House
Lauren Elkin

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She is also an award-winning translator, most recently of Simone de Beauvoir's previously unpublished novel The Inseparables.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.

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