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...

Is the canon of art history a sacred collection of the best paintings by the greatest masters, or a construct turning its contents into products of mastery, and defining culture and creativity as essentially European and masculine? The question of the traditional, patriarchal canon, of whether it should be rejected, replaced or reformed, is a debate at the centre of feminist art history. In this book, the author examines the canon's appeal, and explores both the fantasies and desires served by traditional heroic narratives in art history, and those which drive feminist criticism to oppose...

This text brings together a collection of artists, curators, critics and researchers to consider the question of sexual difference and its significance in the production and reception of visual representation by women artists. Generations indicates a sense of awareness of the historical and political positioning of women whereas Geographies calls attention to their location in terms of nationality, imperialism, migration, exile, diaspora and social difference. Drawing on a range of current theoretical perspectives, works by women artists of the 20th century are examined in terms of themes...

This text brings together a collection of artists, curators, critics and researchers to consider the question of sexual difference and its significance in the production and reception of visual representation by women artists. Generations indicates a sense of awareness of the historical and political positioning of women whereas Geographies calls attention to their location in terms of nationality, imperialism, migration, exile, diaspora and social difference. Drawing on a range of current theoretical perspectives, works by women artists of the 20th century are examined in terms of themes...

Griselda 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 also re-inserts into art history their female contemporaries - women artists such as Berthe Morisot and Mary Cassatt.

Pollock discusses the work of women artists such as Mary Kelly and Yve Lomax, highlighting the problems of working in a...

Psychoanalysis and the Image brings together an influential team of international scholars who demonstrate innovative ways to apply psychoanalytical resources in the study of international modern art and visual representation.

• Examines psychoanalytic concepts, values, debates and controversies that have been hallmarks of visual representation in the modern and contemporary periods
  
• Covers topics including melancholia, sex, and pathology to the body, and parent-child relations
  
• Advances theoretical debates in art history while...

Psychoanalysis and the Image brings together an influential team of international scholars who demonstrate innovative ways to apply psychoanalytical resources in the study of international modern art and visual representation.

• Examines psychoanalytic concepts, values, debates and controversies that have been hallmarks of visual representation in the modern and contemporary periods
  
• Covers topics including melancholia, sex, and pathology to the body, and parent-child relations
  
• Advances theoretical debates in art history while...

Museums After Modernism is a unique collectionthat showcases the ways questions about the museum go to the heart of contemporary debates about the production, consumption and distribution of art. The book features expert artists, curators and art historians who grapple with many of the vibrant issues in museum studies, while paying homage to a new museology that needs to be considered.

• Examines the key contemporary debates in museum studies
• Includes original essays by noted artists, curators, and art historians
• Engages with vital issues in the practice of...

Museums After Modernism is a unique collectionthat showcases the ways questions about the museum go to the heart of contemporary debates about the production, consumption and distribution of art. The book features expert artists, curators and art historians who grapple with many of the vibrant issues in museum studies, while paying homage to a new museology that needs to be considered.

• Examines the key contemporary debates in museum studies
• Includes original essays by noted artists, curators, and art historians
• Engages with vital issues in the practice of...

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