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  • Griselda Pollock on Gauguin

    Series Book 6 - Pocket Perspectives
    Griselda Pollock, feminist art historian and longstanding advocate of gender and racial inclusivity, unpacks the racist, sexist, and imperialist underpinnings of works created by Gauguin and others as they competed for preeminence in the European artistic avant-garde of the 1880s and '90s.Acclaimed feminist art historian Griselda Pollock dismantles the racist, sexist and imperialist underpinnings ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Killing Men & Dying Women

    Imagining Difference in 1950s New York Painting

    What did it mean for painter Lee Krasner to be an artist and a woman if, in the culture of 1950s New York, to be an artist was to be Jackson Pollock and to be a woman was to be Marilyn Monroe?With this question, Griselda Pollock begins a transdisciplinary journey across the gendered aesthetics and the politics of difference in New York abstract, gestural painting. Revisiting recent exhibitions of ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Differencing the Canon

    Feminism and the Writing of Art's Histories

    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 ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Looking Back to the Future

    1990-1970

    Series series Critical Voices in Art, Theory and Culture
    In this selection of recent essays, Pollock insightfully engages all major areas of contemporary theory, especially focusing on sexed subjectivities, post-colonialism and Marxist-informed history. In her commentary, Penny Florence places Pollock's critique of modernism, art history, and criticism within the context of the social, political, and ideological developments that have taken place since ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Mary Cassatt

    Painter of Modern Women

    Series series World of Art
    This groundbreaking study, the definitive introduction to the work of artist Mary Cassatt, places her work in the wider context of nineteenth-century feminism and art theory and is now updated with color illustrations.This groundbreaking study redefines the status of the beloved American artist Mary Cassatt, placing her work in the wider context of nineteenth-century feminism and art theory. Mary ... Read more

    $13.89 USD

  • Encounters in the Virtual Feminist Museum

    Time, Space and the Archive

    Continuing her feminist reconceptualisation of the ways we can experience and study the visual arts, world renowned art historian and cultural analyst, Griselda Pollock proposes a series of new encounters through virtual exhibitions with art made by women over the twentieth century. Challenging the dominant museum models of art and history that have been so exclusive of women's artistic ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Vision and Difference

    Feminism, Femininity and Histories of Art

    Series series Routledge Classics
    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. Crucially, she not only explores a feminist re-reading of the works of canonical male Impressionist and Pre-Raphaelite artists including Edgar Degas and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, but als ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Old Mistresses

    Women, Art and Ideology

    Series series Bloomsbury Revelations
    Why is everything that compromises greatness in art coded as 'feminine'? Has the feminist critique of Art History yet effected real change? With a new preface by Griselda Pollock, this 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 leads to expanded, inclusive readings of the art of the past. They ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Concentrationary Memories

    Totalitarian Terror and Cultural Resistance

    Series series New Encounters: Arts, Cultures, Concepts
    In 1945, French political prisoners returning from the concentration camps of Germany coined the phrase 'the concentrationary universe' to describe the camps as a terrible political experiment in the destruction of the human. This book shows how the unacknowledged legacy of a totalitarian mentality has seeped into the deepest recesses of everyday popular culture. It asks if the concentrationary ... Read more

    $30.79 USD

  • Visual Politics of Psychoanalysis

    Art and the Image in Post-Traumatic Cultures

    Edited by Griselda Pollock ...
    Series series New Encounters: Arts, Cultures, Concepts
    Activists working in post-traumatic societies have tended to resist psychoanalytical terms because they fear that pathologizing individual suffering displaces the collective and political causes of traumatic violence. In a contrary direction, some thinkers about discourse and power have latterly embraced what Judith Butler insists is 'the psychic life of power'. An openly psychoanalytical ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Concentrationary Imaginaries

    Tracing Totalitarian Violence in Popular Culture

    Series series New Encounters: Arts, Cultures, Concepts
    In 1945, French political prisoners returning from the concentration camps of Germany coined the phrase 'the concentrationary universe' to describe the camps as a terrible political experiment in the destruction of the human. This book shows how the unacknowledged legacy of a totalitarian mentality has seeped into the deepest recesses of everyday popular culture. It asks if the concentrationary ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Work and the Image

    Volume 1: Work, Craft and Labour - Visual Representations in Changing Histories

    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This title was first published in 2000. "Work and the Image", published in two volumes, addresses a critical theme in contemporary social and cultural debates whose place in visual representation has been neglected. Ranging from Greek pottery to contemporary performance, and exploring a breadth of geo-national perspectives including those of France, Britain, Hungary, Soviet Russia, the Ukraine, ... Read more

    $48.99 USD