In this text, art historian Griselda Pollock makes an intervention into the debate on whether the traditional canon of the Old Masters be rejected, replaced or reformed What difference can a feminist approach to art history make? The book moves between feminist re-readings of modern masters - Van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec and Manet - and the canonical artists of feminist art history Artemisia Gentileschi and Mary Cassatt. Pollock asks both how women read and what might be different about art made by a woman. She unpacks the representation of culturally resonant female figures in a range of...

This study of the work of women artists discusses the work of individual women artists in the context of contemporary art practices and in relation to key feminist issues in art history. It looks at the work of a diverse range of artists including women from the United States, the former Soviet Union and the United Kingdom - discussing, among others, the work of Barbara Kruger, Cindy Sherman and the V Girls. Work by 20th-century Soviet women artists is covered, providing a case study of the production of art in non-Western economic, political and ideological circumstances.