{"product_id":"9780374105952-art-monsters-unruly-bodies-in-feminist-art","title":"Elkin Lauren - Art Monsters Unruly Bodies In Feminist Art - Hardcover","description":"Binding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\nDescription: A Must - Read: Vogue Nylon Chicago Review of Books Literary Hub Frieze The Millions Publishers Weekly Inside Hook The Next Big Idea Club Lauren Elkin is a stylish determined provocateur Sharp and cool Art Monsters is exemplary. It describes a whole way to live worthy of secret admiration. Maggie Lange The Washington Post Destined to become a new classic Elkin shatters the truisms that have evolved around feminist thought. Chris Kraus author of I Love Dick and After Kathy Acker: A Literary Biography What kind of art does a monster make? And what if monster is a verb? Noun or a verb the idea is a dare: to overwhelm limits to invent our own definitions of beauty. In this dazzlingly original reassessment of women's stories bodies and art Lauren Elkin the celebrated author of Fl neuse explores the ways in which feminist artists have taken up the challenge of their work and how they not only react against the patriarchy but redefine their own aesthetic aims. How do we tell the truth about our experiences as bodies? What is the language what are the materials that we need to transcribe them? And what are the unique questions facing those engaged with female bodies queer bodies sick bodies racialized bodies? Encompassing a rich genealogy of work across the literary and artistic landscape Elkin makes daring links between disparate points of reference among them Julia Margaret Cameron's photography Kara Walker's silhouettes Vanessa Bell's portraits Eva Hesse's rope sculptures Carolee Schneemann's body art Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's trilingual masterpiece Dictee and steps into the tradition of cultural criticism established by Susan Sontag H l ne Cixous and Maggie Nelson. An erudite potent examination of beauty and excess sentiment and touch the personal and the political the ambiguous and the opaque Art Monsters is a radical intervention that forces us to consider how the idea of the art monster might transform the way we imagine and enact our lives.\u003cbr\u003e\nTitle: Art Monsters Unruly Bodies In Feminist Art\u003cbr\u003e\nAuthor(s): Elkin Lauren\u003cbr\u003e\nPublisher: Farrar Straus And Giroux\u003cbr\u003e\nBarcode: 9780374105952\u003cbr\u003e\nPages: 368 Pages\u003cbr\u003e\nLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003e\nPublication Date: 11\/14\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\nCategory: Gender Studies: Women","brand":"Elkin Lauren","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49595109507377,"sku":"IN-G-9780374105952","price":26.62,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0644\/6759\/9594\/files\/9780374105952.jpg?v=1754878800","url":"https:\/\/bookdelivered.com\/products\/9780374105952-art-monsters-unruly-bodies-in-feminist-art","provider":"Book Delivered","version":"1.0","type":"link"}