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Differencing the Canon

Name: Differencing the Canon
Brand: Taylor & Francis Ltd
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Feminist Desire and the Writing of Art's Histories

By: Griselda Pollock

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Paperback | 4 February 1999 | Edition Number 1

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364 Pages

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24.5 x 17.5 x 2.5

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In this major new book, renowned art historian Griselda Pollock enters the debate at the very center of the culture wars: Should the traditional canon of the Old Masters be rejected, replaced or reformed? And 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. Avoiding both an unrelenting critique of masculine canons and the unquestioned celebration of women artists, Pollock asks both how women read and what might be different about art made by a woman. She unpacks the representations 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 Bronte's Lucy Snowe, artists representations of Cleopatra and Angela Carter's "Black Venus," and argues that it is not enough simply to read as a woman; we must also acknowledge the differences between women shaped by racism and colonialism.
Inspiring and original, "Differencing the Canon" offers an intervention that attempts to make difference a creative and dynamic process, opening up the possibilities of reading the complexity of visual art.

Industry Reviews

..."Pollock deesentializes the category "woman," here well described as a fiction of the canon that erases class and race in the modernist movement--a rubbing-out that feminist art history can write back in." -"SIGNS "[A] keen critique of the canon as a gendered and gendering institution intent on excluding those who differ from its hegemonic structure of European male power." -" RACAR "The flow of the book is wondrous, as Pollack builds each new idea onto the next, rounded out with rigorous research." -"Foreword, 4/99 ..."a densely woven text of art, literature, history, and theory... powerful... rewarding." -Steven Z. Levine, Bryn Mawr College, "Woman's Art Journal, Spring/Summer 2001

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