Mary Richardson puts in an appearance in 'Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art,' the essayist, critic, and translator Lauren Elkin's erudite, provocative, and relentlessly eclectic ramble through the overlapping terrains of art, feminism, and society.
Last month, a pair of climate activists attacked a painting known as 'The Rokeby Venus'...They said they chose that particular canvas because it had been attacked in the service of social justice before. In 1914, the Canadian-born suffragette Mary Richardson entered the National Gallery and, after making her way over to the painting, slashed it half a dozen times with a meat cleaver.
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