Vision and Difference: Feminism, Femininity and the Histories of Art"The publication of Vision and Difference marked a milestone in the development of modern art history. Its introduction of a feminist perspective into this largely male-oriented discipline made shockwaves that are still felt forcefully today. Drawing upon rich resources of feminist cultural analysis hitherto little applied to the visual arts, Griselda Pollock offers concrete historical analyses of key moments in the formation of modern culture to reveal the sexual politics at the heart of modernist art. Crucially, she not only provides a feminist re-reading of the work of canonical male Impressionist and Pre-Raphaelite artists including Edgar Degas and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, but also re-inserts into art history their female contemporaries - women artists such as Berthe Morisot and Mary Cassatt. Casting her critical eye over the contemporary art scene, Pollock discusses the work of women artists such as Mary Kelly and Yve Lomax, highlighting the problems of working in a culture where the feminine is still defined as the object of the male gaze. Now published with a new introduction by Griselda Pollock, Vision and Difference remains as powerful and as essential reading as ever for all those seeking not only to understand the history of the feminine in art but also to develop new strategies for representation for the future."--Back cover. |
Contents
an introduction | 1 |
feminist art
histories and Marxism | 25 |
3 Modernity and the spaces of femininity | 70 |
the representation of Elizabeth Siddall
written in collaboration with Deborah Cherry | 128 |
signs of femininity | 163 |
psychoanalytic readings | 166 |
sexuality and
representation in feminist practice a
Brechtian perspective | 212 |
Notes | 269 |
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308 | |
Other editions - View all
Vision and Difference: Feminism, Femininity and Histories of Art Griselda Pollock Limited preview - 2015 |
Vision and Difference: Feminism, Femininity and Histories of Art Griselda Pollock No preview available - 2015 |
Vision and Difference: Feminism, Femininity and the Histories of Art Griselda Pollock No preview available - 2003 |
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