A Must-Read: Vogue, Nylon, Chicago Review of Books, Literary Hub, Frieze, The Millions, Publishers Weekly, InsideHook, 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