Differencing the canon
Subtitle: feminist desire and the writing of art's histories
By: Griselda Pollock.
Series: Re visions; Re visions (London, England)
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1999
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 345
ISBN-13: 9780415066990; 9780415067003
Subjects: Feminism and art; Women art historians -- Psychology; Psychoanalysis and feminism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 318-327) and index.
Table of contents: title: About canons and culture wars; title: Differencing: feminism's encounter with the canon; title: The ambivalence of the maternal body: re/drawing Van Gogh; title: Fathers of modern art, mothers of invention: cocking a leg at Toulouse-Lautrec; title: The female hero and the making of a feminist canon: Artemisia Gentileschi's representations of Susanna and Judith; title: Feminist mythologies and missing mothers: Virginia Woolf, Charlotte Brontë, Artemisia Gentileschi and Cleopatra; title: Revenge: Lubaina Himid and the making of new narratives for new histories; title: 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; title: A tale of three women: seeing in the dark, seeing double, at least, with Manet.