Old mistresses : women, art and ideology
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Old mistresses : women, art and ideology
（Bloomsbury revelations）
Bloomsbury Academic, 2021
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Available at 2 libraries
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Originally published: London : Pandora, 1981
Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-202) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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 demonstrate how the changing historical social realities of gender relations and women artists' translation of gendered conditions into their works provide keys to novel understandings of why we might study the art of the past. They go further to show how such knowledge enables us to understand art by contemporary artists who are women and can contribute to the changing self-perception and creative work of artists today.
In March 2020 Griselda Pollock was awarded the Holberg Prize in recognition of her outstanding contribution to research and her influence on thinking on gender, ideology, art and visual culture worldwide for over 40 years. Old Mistresses was her first major scholarly publication which has become a classic work of feminist art history.
Table of Contents
Preface by Rozsika Parker and Griselda Pollock
A Lonely Preface to the New Edition by Griselda Pollock
Acknowledgments
1 Critical Stereotypes: the essential feminine or how essential is femininity
2 Crafty women and the hierarchy of the arts
3 ‘God’s little artist’
4 Painted ladies
5 Back to the twentieth century: femininity and and feminism
Conclusion
Notes
Select bibliography and further reading
Index
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