Old Mistresses: Women, Art and Ideology

Rozsika Parker, Griselda Pollock

Bloomsbury Academic, Jul 30, 2013 - Art - 184 pages

"How was it possible, by the later twentieth century, to have erased women as artists from art history so comprehensively that the idea of 'the artist' was exclusively masculine? Why was this erasure more radical in the twentieth century than ever before? Why is everything that compromises greatness in art coded as 'feminine'? Has the feminist critique of Art History history yet effected real change? With a new Preface by Griselda Pollock, this new edition of a truly groundbreaking book offers a radical challenge to a women-free Art History. Parker and Pollock's critique of Art History's sexism."

About the author

Griselda Pollock is Professor of Social and Critical Histories of Art and, since 2001, Director, Centre CATH (Cultural Analysis, Theory & History) at the University of Leeds, UK. Known for her critical interventions in feminist, social, Jewish and postcolonial studies in art's histories, her work ranges from nineteenth and twentieth century fields to that of contemporary art and cinema, museum studies and cultural theory. Her publications include Old Mistresses, Vision and Difference, Avant-Garde Gambits, Generations and Geographies, and Differencing the Canon.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Old Mistresses: Women, Art and Ideology
• Authors: Rozsika Parker, Griselda Pollock
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2013
• ISBN: 1780764049, 9781780764047
• Length: 184 pages
• Subjects: Art / Criticism & Theory; Art / History / General; Art / Subjects & Themes / Human Figure; Art / Techniques / Painting; Art / Women Artists; Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory; Social Science / Gender Studies; Social Science / Women's Studies