Pollock, Griselda

Differencing the canon : feminist desire and the writing of art's histories / Griselda Pollock. - xviii, 345 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. - Re visions. . - Re visions (London, England) .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 318-327) and index.

List of illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Firing the canon -- About canons and culture wars -- Differencing: feminism's encounter with the canon -- Reading against the grain: reading for... -- The ambivalence of the maternal body: re/drawing Van Gogh -- Fathers of modern art: mothers of invention: cocking a leg at Toulouse-Lautrec -- Heroines: setting women in the canon -- The female hero and the making of a feminist canon: Artemisia Gentileschi's representations of Susanna and Judith -- Feminist mythologies and missing mothers: Virginia Woolf, Charlotte Bronte, Artemisia Gentileschi and Cleopatra -- Revenge: Lubaina Himid and the making of new narratives for new histories -- Who is the other? -- 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 -- A tale of three women: seeing in the dark, seeing double, at least, with Manet -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index. Pt. I. 1. 2. Pt. II. 3. 4. Pt. III. 5. 6. 7. Pt. IV. 8. 9.

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Feminism and art
Women art historians--Psychology
Psychoanalysis and feminism

N72.F45 / P63 1999

704.042