Differencing the Canon: Feminism and the Writing of Art's Histories by Griselda Pollock (University of Leeds, UK)
Topical debate on the canon
Internationally renowned author
Differencing the Canon
Summary
In this major book, renowned art historian Griselda Pollock makes a compelling intervention into a debate at the very centre of feminist art history: should the traditional canon of the Old Masters be rejected, replaced or reformed?
Differencing the Canon Summary
Differencing the Canon Reviews
'The flow of the book is wondrous, as Pollock buils each new idea onto the next, rounded out with rigorous research.' - Elizabeth Millard, ForeWardo
'If you like psychoanalytic feminism accompanied by committed, sensitive writing, then you will enjoy this read.' - Professor Gen Doy, The Art Book
About Griselda Pollock (University of Leeds, UK)
Griselda Pollock
Table of Contents
Preface PART I Firing the canon 1 About canons and culture wars 2 Differencing: feminism's encounter with the canon PART II Reading against the grain: reading for ... 3 The ambivalence of the maternal body: re/drawing Van Gogh 4 Fathers of modern art: mothers of invention: cocking a leg at Toulouse-Lautrec PART III Heroines: setting women in the canon 5 The female hero and the making of a feminist canon: Artemisia 6 Feminist mythologies and missing mothers: Virginia Woolf, Charlotte Bronte, Artemisia Gentileschi and Cleopatra 7 Revenge: Lubaina Himid and the making of new narratives for new histories PART IV Who is the other? 8 Some letters on feminism, politics and modern art: when Edgar Degas shared a space with Mary Cassatt at the Suffrage Benefit Exhibition, New York 1915 9 A tale of three women: seeing in the dark, seeing double, at least, with Manet
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GOR010432620
9780415067003
0415067006
Differencing the Canon: Feminism and the Writing of Art's Histories by Griselda Pollock (University of Leeds, UK)
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Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
1999-02-04
364
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