Differencing the Canon - Feminism and the Writing of Art's Histories (Hardcover)

In this major new 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? What difference can a feminist approach to art history make?
Differencing the Canon moves between feminist re-readings of modern masters - Van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec and Manet - and the canonical artists of feminist art history Artemisia Gentileschi and Mary Cassatt. Pollock asks both how women read and what might be different about art made by a woman. Pollock unpacks the representation of culturally resonant female figures in a range of texts, from Manet's depiction of the model Jeanne Duval in his painting Olympia, to Charlotte Brontë's Lucy Snowe, artists representations of Cleopatra and Angela Carter's Black Venus. She argues that it is not enough simply to read as a woman; we must also acknowledge the differences between women shaped by racist and colonial hierarchies.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	February 1999
First published:	1999
Authors:	Griselda Pollock
Dimensions:	246 x 174 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	364
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-06699-0
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > The arts: general issues > General Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > Feminism
LSN:	0-415-06699-9
Barcode:	9780415066990

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