Vision and difference : feminism, femininity and the histories of art / Griselda Pollock ; with a new introduction by the author.

Originally published: 1988.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-307) and index.

List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction to the Routledge Classics Edition -- 1. Feminist interventions in the histories of art: an introduction -- 2. Vision, voice and power: feminist art histories and Marxism -- 3. Modernity and the spaces of feminity -- 4. Woman as sign in Pre-Raphaelite literature: the representation of Elizabeth Siddall -- 5. A photo-essay: signs of feminity -- 6. Woman as sign: psychoanalytic readings -- 7. Screening the seventies: sexuality and representation in feminist practice - a Brechtian perspective -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

"Drawing upon rich resources of feminist cultural analysis hitherto little applied to the visual arts, Griselda Pollock offers 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 provides a feminist re-reading of the work 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 Bertha Morisot and Mary Cassatt. Casting her critical eye over the contemporary art scene, Pollock discusses the work of women artists such as Mary Kelly and Yve Lomar highlighting the problems of working in a culture where the feminine is still defined as the object of the male gaze. Now published with a new introduction by Griselda Pollock, Vision and Difference remains as powerful and as essential reading as ever for all those seeking not only to understand the history of the feminine in art but also to develop new strategies for representation for the future."--BOOK JACKET.rview.

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