Lauren Elkin on Carolee Schneemann and Hannah Wilke

The Great Women Artists

Katy Hessel

Arts

4.8 • 877 Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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I am so excited to say that my guest on the GWA Podcast is one of the most brilliant writers around today, Lauren Elkin! On today's episode we speak about feminist pioneers, Carolee Schneemann and Hannah Wilke!! Elkin is an American in London who has lived and spent extensive time in Paris, Liverpool, Tokyo, Venice and New York – as outlined in one of my favourite of her books, Flaneuse, which sees her trace cities through the eyes and steps of female writers and artists as the feminine “flaneur”, one who walks aimlessly. She is excellent at making her own a term or a trait previously steeped in patriarchal meaning. The author of four books, and the translator of others – including of Simone de Beauvoir’s unpublished novel, The Inseparables – Elkin has received numerous awards for her writing. She has been a cultural critic for the likes of the New York Times, Harpers, London Review of Books, TLS, Frieze, and more; holds a PhD in English; an M.Phil in French; and is currently working on biographies on the likes of avant-garde tastemaker Getrude Stein and artist Louise Bourgeois. But! One of the reasons why we are speaking with Elkin today is because she has recently published a fantastic book, Art Monsters, which looks at a variety of female artists – from Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun to Laura Knight; Betye Saar to Carolee Schneemann; Eva Hesse and Hannah Wilke; Kara Walker and Maria Lassnig – who have centred their practice around the body. Exploring those who reacted against patriarchal portrayals and ideas of the body, Art Monsters is a fascinating insight into how women have broken from the historically-weighted past and configured a language using a voice unique to them. LAUREN'S BOOKS: https://www.waterstones.com/book/art-monsters/lauren-elkin/9781784742935 https://www.waterstones.com/book/flaneuse/lauren-elkin/9780099593379 https://www.waterstones.com/book/no-91-92-notes-on-a-parisian-commute/lauren-elkin/9781838014186 -- THIS EPISODE IS GENEROUSLY SUPPORTED BY THE LEVETT COLLECTION: https://www.instagram.com/famm.mougins // https://www.merrellpublishers.com/9781858947037 ENJOY!!! Follow us: Katy Hessel: @thegreatwomenartists / @katy.hessel Sound editing by Nada Smiljanic Music by Ben Wetherfield https://www.thegreatwomenartists.com/

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome back to series 10 of the Great Women Artists podcast.
0:06.0	I am so excited to say that this series is supported by the Levit Collection, a vast and varied
0:11.9	art collection of which a major portion is dedicated to fantastic works by women artists.
0:18.0	The Levit Collection's support for women in the arts is such that preparations are in
0:22.2	full swing for the creation of the new museum, FAMM, F-A-M, which will be opening in June 24 in Mujan
0:30.8	in the south of France. It will be the first major museum in mainland Europe dedicated to solely
0:36.9	female artists and will exhibit a myriad of
0:39.7	artworks all from the collection impressionist surrealist modern and contemporary art created by women from around
0:46.4	the world will take pride of place in the levitt's new museum female artists of the mujan museum
0:51.9	but in the meantime stay tuned by following at fam.m.m
0:56.3	and don't miss the beautiful book, abstract expressionists, the women, published by Morel,
1:01.5	which presents a selection of works from the collection, alongside richly illustrated essays by scholars LNG Landau and Joan M. Martyr, all available now.
1:12.7	I hope you enjoy this episode.
1:24.4	Hello everyone and welcome to The Great Woman Artist's podcast with me, Katie Hessel.
1:27.7	Some of you might know me from The Great Women Artists. An Instagram account, I set up in October 2015,
1:31.0	which celebrates female artists on a daily basis,
1:33.9	ranging from young graduates to old masters.
1:37.3	Well, in a similar fashion to the Instagram,
1:39.7	this podcast is all about celebrating female artists
1:43.1	from a variety of backgrounds and histories.
1:45.5	And I am so excited to be interviewing artists on their career or artists, writers,
1:50.5	curators or general art lovers on the women artist who means most of them.
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