TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pollock,Griselda
TI  - Differencing the canon: feminist desire and the writing of art's histories 
T2  - Re visions
SN  - 0415066999
AV  - N72 .F45 P63 1999
PY  - 1999///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Feminism and art
KW  - Psychoanalysis and feminism
KW  - Women art historians
KW  - Psychology
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 318-327) and index; About canons and culture wars -- Differencing: feminism's encounter with the canon -- The ambivalence of the maternal body: re/drawing Van Gogh -- Fathers of modern art: mothers of invention: cocking a leg at Toulouse-Lautrec -- The female hero and the making of a feminist canon: Artemisia Gentileschi's representations of Susanna and Judith -- Feminist mythologies and missing mothers: Virginia Woolf, Charlotte Bronte, Artemisia Gentileschi and Cleopatra -- Revenge: Lubaina Himid and the making of new narratives for new histories -- 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 -- A tale of three women: seeing in the dark, seeing double, at least, with Manet
N2  - In this book, art historian Griselda Pollock makes a compelling intervention into a debate at the very centre of feminist art history: should the traditional canon of the 'Old Masters' be rejected, replaced or reformed? What 'difference' can feminist 'interventions in art's histories' make? Should we simply reject the all-male succession of 'great artists' in favour of an all-woman litany of artistic heroines? Or should we displace present gender demarcations and allow the ambiguities and complexities of desire to shape our readings of art?; Differencing the Canon moves between feminist re-readings of the canonical modern masters - Van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec and Manet - and the 'canonical' artists of feminist art history, Artemisia Gentileschi and Mary Cassatt. Pollock avoids both an unnuanced critique of masculine canons and an unquestioning celebration of women artists. She draws on psychoanalysis and deconstruction to examine the project of reading for 'inscriptions in the feminine', and asks what the signs of difference might be in art made by an artist who is 'a woman'
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