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Art monsters : unruly bodies in feminist art

Title
Art monsters : unruly bodies in feminist art / Lauren Elkin.
Author
Elkin, Lauren
Publication
  • London : Chatto & Windus, 2023.
  • ©2023

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Description
xii, 354 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color); 24 cm
Summary
"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, Helene 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"--
Alternative Title
Unruly bodies in feminist art
Subject
  • Women and the arts
  • Women artists
  • Human figure in art
  • Monsters in art
  • Female monsters
  • Feminist aesthetics
  • Female nude in art
  • Women in art
  • Arts et femmes
  • Femmes artistes
  • Corps humain dans l'art > Technique
  • Monstres dans l'art
  • Nu féminin
  • Femmes dans l'art
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages [293]-308) and index.
Contents
I. monster theory -- II. professions for women -- III. bodies of work.
ISBN
  • 9781784742935
  • 1784742937
  • 9781473566507 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
99994932746
OCLC
  • on1378623331
  • 1378623331
  • SCSB-14667904
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries