A dazzlingly original reassessment of women’s stories, bodies and art – and how we think about them.<\/b><\/p>\n
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?<\/p>\n
Exploring the ways in which feminist artists have taken up this challenge,\u00a0Art Monsters\u00a0<\/i>is a landmark intervention in how we think about art and the body. Weaving daring links between disparate artists and writers \u2013 from Julia Margaret Cameron\u2019s photography to Kara Walker\u2019s silhouettes, Vanessa Bell\u2019s portraits to Eva Hesse\u2019s rope sculptures \u2013 Lauren Elkin shows that their work offers a potent celebration of beauty and excess, sentiment and touch, the personal and the political.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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