Art Monsters
Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art
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Narrated by:
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Lauren Elkin
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By:
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Lauren Elkin
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Brought to you by Penguin.
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.
'Destined to become a new classic' Chris Kraus
‘The Susan Sontag of her generation’ Deborah Levy
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The narration went on voyages through different themes; sometimes lines of thought were closed, and other times left open. All of it, for me, added to the poetry and unapologetic character of this book. An idea that was probably not be easy to weave together and that at points questions itself - it does all it does with true authenticity. It honours art that is purposefully 'ugly' as much as artists who might have been perceived as having considerate shortcomings; it turns the Jungian shadow on its head and makes it shine in its full courageous splendour.
My only question regarded the 'slash'es. These felt very poignant at times, but at other points unnecessarily dramatic.
All in all, definitely a book worth reading for all those exploring the body political in art, feminist art, or just counter-normative narratives about the female body!
Full of life-affirming shadows!!
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