Vision And Difference: Feminism, Femininity And Histories Of Art

Griselda Pollock provides concrete historical analyses of key moments in the formation of modern culture to reveal the sexual politics at the heart of modernist art. She explores a feminist re-reading of the works of canonical male Impressionist and Pre-Raphaelite artists including Edgar Degas and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and re-inserts into art history their female contemporaries such as Berthe Morisot and Mary Cassatt. Pollock also discusses the work of women artists like Mary Kelly and Yve Lomax, highlighting the problems of working in a culture where the feminine is still defined as the object of the male gaze.