Differencing the canon : feminist desire and the writing of art's histories / Griselda Pollock.
Material type: TextSeries: Re visions (London, England)Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 1999Description: xviii, 345 pages : illustrations ; 26 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0415066999
- 9780415066990
- 704.042
- N72.F45 P63 1999
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 704.042 POL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A182220B |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 318-327) and index.
List of illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Pt. I. Firing the canon -- 1. About canons and culture wars -- 2. Differencing: feminism's encounter with the canon -- Pt. 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 -- Pt. III. Heroines: setting women in the canon -- 5. The female hero and the making of a feminist canon: Artemisia Gentileschi's representations of Susanna and Judith -- 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 -- Pt. 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 -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index.
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