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Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art by Lauren Elkin
Category: Art and Design
A landmark feminist intervention- 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, fema ...Show more
Art Monsters - Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art by Lauren Elkin
Category: Art Literature
Coming across the term "art monster" in Jenny Offill's 2014 novel Dept. of Speculation, Lauren Elkin was intrigued. What kinds of connections might there be between art and monstrosity, and how was it different when the artist in question was a woman? Art Monsters is a landmark feminist intervention in ...Show more
Caroline Walker - Picture Window by Caroline Walker; Marco Livingstone; Lauren Elkin; Andrew Nairne; Rina Arya
Category: Art and Photography
Celebrated for her beautiful, sometimes playful yet often challenging and complex paintings of contemporary women in diverse architectural settings, both interior and exterior, Caroline Walker's practice explores the myriad social, cultural, economic, racial, and political factors that affect women's li ...Show more
Flaneuse - Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London by Lauren Elkin
Category: Biography
'Flaneuse [flanne-euhze], noun, from the French. Feminine form of flaneur [flanne-euhr], an idler, a dawdling observer, usually found in cities. That is an imaginary definition.' If the word flaneur conjures up visions of Baudelaire, boulevards and bohemia - then what exactly is a flaneuse? In this glor ...Show more
Flaneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London by Lauren Elkin
Category: Biography
Selected as a Book of the Year 2016 by the Financial Times, Guardian, New Statesman, Observer, The Millions and Emerald Street "Flaneuse [flanne-euhze], noun, from the French. Feminine form of flaneur [flanne-euhr], an idler, a dawdling observer, usually found in cities. That is an imaginary definition. ...Show more
No. 91/92 - Notes on Parisian Commute by Lauren Elkin
Category: Biography Memoir | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
No. 91/92: a Parisian Bus Diary by Lauren Elkin
Category: Biography
A LOVE LETTER TO PARIS, A MEDITATION ON COMMUNITY AND THE BEAUTY OF OBSERVING OTHERS Your telephone is precious. It may be envied. We recommend vigilance when using it in public. - Paris bus public notice In Autumn 2014, Lauren Elkin began keeping a diary of her bus commutes in the Notes app on her iP ...Show more
Scaffolding by Lauren Elkin
Category: Fiction
The story of two couples who live in the same apartment in north-east Paris almost fifty years apart.In 2019, Anna, a psychoanalyst, is processing a recent miscarriage. Her husband, David, takes a job in London so she spends days obsessing over renovating the kitchen while befriending a younger woman ca ...Show more
The Bedroom: An Intimate History by Michelle Perrot; Lauren Elkin
Category: History
The winner of France's prestigious Prix Femina Essai (2009), this imaginative and captivating book explores the many dimensions of the room in which we spend so much of our lives-the bedroom. Eminent cultural historian Michelle Perrot traces the evolution of the bedroom from the time of the ancient Gree ...Show more
The Inseparables: The newly discovered novel from Simone de Beauvoir by de Beauvoir, Simone, Levy, Deborah, Elkin, Lauren, Beauvoir, Sylvie le Bon de
Category: Fiction
VINTAGE CLASSICS FRENCH SERIES- beautiful flapped paperback editions showcasing the bestselling, most acclaimed French writers of the twentieth century.The lost novel from the author of The Second SexWhen Andree joins her school, Sylvie is immediately fascinated. Andree is small for her age, but walks w ...Show more
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