Robinson, Hilary,

Reading art, reading Irigaray : the politics of art by women / Hilary Robinson. - vii, 230 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-223) and index.

Structures of visual representation -- Mimesis -- The visible -- Body and legibility -- Morphology -- Gesture -- Women's genealogies -- Divine beauty -- Mother-daughter genealogies. Pt. 1. Ch. 1. Ch. 2. Pt. 2. Ch. 3. Ch. 4. Pt. 3. Ch. 5. Ch. 6.

"Luce Irigaray is one of the foremost philosophers and feminist thinkers of our day. Her work has had an enormous impact on the visual arts and is widely taught and read across the field - yet the actual implications of this influential body of thought for art itself are rarely elucidated. What does her work really mean when it comes to the art made by women artists? Hilary Robinson looks at the work of groundbreaking women artists including Louise Bourgeois, Rachel Whiteread, Bridget Riley and Jenny Saville in light of the key strands of Irigaray's thought, from ideas of masquerade, mimicry, morphology and the maternal to the original notions of 'mucous' and 'the speculum' for which she is well known."--BOOK JACKET.

186064953X 9781860649530


Irigaray, Luce


Feminism and art
Art--Philosophy.

N72.F45 / R63 2006

704.042