Lauren Elkin: Art Monsters Veronica Ryan and young women

and young women

and Desmond Morris

Coltrane's move into modal music was governed by different principles than Coleman's melodic excursions Sun Ra's attention to texture and rhythm created an entirely different big bang sound then had Mingus's attention to form

and practices have repelled them from it

Lauren Elkin: Art Monsters Veronica Ryan and young womenVintage, 2024, softcover, 368 pages, 13 x 20 cm 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.