This book explores how theories of embodiment, the gesture, hysteria and subjectivity can deepen our... Læs mere
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?
A selection of essays by Griselda Pollock, engaging areas of contemporary theory, especially sexed subjectivities, post-colonialism and Marxist-informed history.... Læs mere
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, exploring the writings of Elizabeth Siddall, Mary Cassatt and Berthe Morisot.
Griselda Pollock reintroduces an important feminist forerunner in this new, full-colour setting of Helen Rosenau’s 1944 book Woman in Art