Title: Old mistresses : women, art and ideology /
Authors: Parker, Rozsika; Pollock, Griselda
Year: 2013
Subjects: Women artists; Feminism and art.; Women in art.
Abstract: "How was it possible, by the later twentieth century, to have erased women as artists from art history so comprehensively that the idea of 'the artist' was exclusively masculine? Why was this erasure more radical in the twentieth century than ever before? Why is everything that compromises greatness in art coded as 'feminine'? Has the feminist critique of Art History history yet effected real change? With a new Preface by Griselda Pollock, this new edition of a truly groundbreaking book offers a radical challenge to a women-free Art History. Parker and Pollock's critique of Art History's sexism."
Contents: Critical stereotypes: the essential feminine or how essential is femininity -- Crafty women and the hierarchy of the arts -- ʻGod’s little artist’ -- Painted ladies -- Back to the twentieth century: femininity and feminism.