Art monsters : unruly bodies in feminist art
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New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023.
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xii, 354 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
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Published
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023.
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English
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Includes bibliographical references (page 289-338) and index.
Description
"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...reassessment of women’s stories, bodies, and art, Lauren Elkin...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 with 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, Hélène 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." --publisher's website
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Elkin, L. (2023). Art monsters: unruly bodies in feminist art (First American edition.). Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Elkin, Lauren. 2023. Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Elkin, Lauren. Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Elkin, Lauren. Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art First American edition., Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023.
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