Encounters in the Virtual Feminist Museum : Time, Space and the Archive

ISBN-13: 9780415413732 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 262 str.

Grisel Pollock

Opis

In an innovative and experimental format, Griselda Pollock provides another new impetus in ways of thinking and writing about the visual arts.

Neither cybernetic nor etherised, Encounters in  the Virtual Feminist Museum is a poetic laboratory breaking the museums rigid rules to create encounters with and between images by and about women as they engaged with and were defined by modernity. Tracking the complex relays between femininity, modernity and representation by means of a sequence of virtual exhibitions, this book reframes art in the twentieth century with women in mind. Initially exploring how modernist women engaged creatively with the legacies of western arts prime representation of femininity the nude female body the book also contemplates the traumatic rupture scorched into the culture of the West by the Holocaust. What can be the function of art after the atrocity inflicted on bodies by Nazi terror and mass murder? What can feminist theory and aesthetic practice contribute to the debates about art after Auschwitz?

In our era of Liquid Modernity with its dizzyingly accelerating pace of change, how can art making working with media such as painting and drawing call upon us to take time, and reclaim the meaning of time times of making, times of viewing, times of thinking?

Calling upon both the Freudian museum and Aby Warburgs Memory Atlas as resources for feminist cultural analysis, this book is another major contribution to contemporary art history and cultural studies.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements  List of Illustrations  Part 1: The Afterlife of Images: Framing Fathers  1. What the Graces made me do... Time, Space and the Archive: Questions of Feminist Method  2. The Grace of Time: Narrativity, Sexuality and the Visual Encounter  3. The Object’s Gaze in the Freudian Museum  Part 2: Femininity, Modernity and Representation  4.Visions of Sex ca 1920  Part 3: After Auschwitz: femininity and futurity  5. Jewish Space/Women’s Time: Encounters with History in the Artworking of Charlotte Salomon 1941-1942  6. The Graces of Catastrophe: Matrixial Time and Aesthetic Space confront the Archive of Disaster  Part 4: Time and the Mark  7. The Time of Drawing : Drawing Time Christine Taylor Patten’s Micro/Macro series  Index

O autorze

Griselda Pollock is Professor of Social and Critical Histories of Art and Director for Cultural Analysis, Theory and History at University of Leeds. A world-renowned scholar of international, post-colonial feminist studies in the visual arts, she is best known for her theoretical and methodological innovation, combined with deeply engaged readings of historical and contemporary art, film and cultural theory.