Vision and Difference: Feminism, Femininity and Histories of ArtGriselda Pollock provides 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 explores a feminist re-reading of the works of canonical male Impressionist and Pre-Raphaelite artists including Edgar Degas and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, but als |
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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Vision and Difference: Feminism, Femininity and the Histories of Art Griselda Pollock Limited preview - 2003 |
Vision and Difference: Feminism, Femininity and Histories of Art Griselda Pollock No preview available - 2015 |
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