The definitive introduction to the artist Mary Cassatt, placing her work in the wider context of 19th-century feminism and art theory.
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?
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.
In closely-read case studies, we encounter artworks by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Ana Mendieta, Louise Bourgeois,... Læs mere
A selection of essays by Griselda Pollock, engaging areas of contemporary theory, especially sexed subjectivities, post-colonialism and Marxist-informed history.... Læs mere