Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art
The form of the protest—the bizarre blood sculpture, the poems—was itself a protest against passivity, lack of imagination, and normalcy.
Lola Milholland • Group Living and Other Recipes: A Memoir
Sally Banes describes how the grotesque body became a radical aesthetic strategy in avant-garde and feminist performance:
It subverted propriety and decorum.
It attacked official culture through excess.
It embraced bodily liberation—eating, sex, fluids, visceral exposures.
It broke down boundaries that upheld patriarchal and normative structures.
The
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