num_pages: 364
description: In this major book, Griselda Pollock engages boldly in the culture wars over `what is the canon?` and `what difference can feminism make?` Do we simply reject the all-male line-up and satisfy our need for ideal egos with an all women litany of artistic heroines? Or is the question a chance to resist the phallocentric binary and allow the ambiguities and complexities of desire - subjectivity and sexuality - to shape the readings of art that constantly displace the present gender demarcations?
language: English
title: Differencing the Canon: Feminist Desire and the Writing of Arts Histories
titlecomplete: Differencing the Canon: Feminist Desire and the Writing of Arts Histories (Revisions, Critical Studies in the History and Theory of Art)
genres: Feminism, History, Research, Art History, Nonfiction, Academic, Art
ratings_count: 86
publisher: Routledge