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Art Monsters - Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art (Hardcover)
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Art Monsters - Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art (Hardcover)
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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, calling attention to a radical
heritage of feminist work that not only reacts against patriarchy
but redefines its own aesthetic aims. Writing in the tradition of
Susan Sontag, Hélène Cixous and Maggie Nelson, Lauren Elkin
demonstrates her power as a cultural critic, 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, Carolee Schneemann's body
art to Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's trilingual masterpiece DICTEE - and
shows that their work offers a potent celebration of beauty and
excess, sentiment and touch, the personal and the political.
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