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  • 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

    $20.99 CAD

  • 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

    $42.99 CAD

  • 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

    $81.99 CAD

  • 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

    $101.99 CAD

  • 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

    $32.99 CAD

  • 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

    $17.99 CAD

  • 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

    $81.06 CAD

  • 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

    $37.99 CAD

  • Crossmappings

    On Visual Culture

    Series series New Encounters: Arts, Cultures, Concepts
    The great, influential cultural critic, Elisabeth Bronfen, sets out in this book a conversation between literature, cinema and visual culture. The crossmappings facilitated in and between these essays address the cultural survival of image formulas involving portraiture and the uncanny relation between the body and its visual representability, the gendering of war, death and the fragility of life, ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Concentrationary Cinema

    Aesthetics as Political Resistance in Alain Resnais's Night and Fog

    Since its completion in 1955, Alain Resnais’s Night and Fog (Nuit et Brouillard) has been considered one of the most important films to confront the catastrophe and atrocities of the Nazi era. But was it a film about the Holocaust that failed to recognize the racist genocide? Or was the film not about the Holocaust as we know it today but a political and aesthetic response to what David Rousset, ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Generations and Geographies in the Visual Arts: Feminist Readings

    Edited by Griselda Pollock ...
    In Generations and Geographies in the Visual Achallenge of Arts: Feminist Readings the challenge of contemporary feminist theory encounters the provocation of the visual arts made by women in the twentieth century. The major issue is difference: sexual, cultural and social. The book points to the singularity of each artist's creative negotiation of time and historical and political circumstance. ... Read more

    $81.06 CAD

  • Concentrationary Art

    Jean Cayrol, the Lazarean and the Everyday in Post-war Film, Literature, Music and the Visual Arts

    Largely forgotten over the years, the seminal work of French poet, novelist and camp survivor Jean Cayrol has experienced a revival in the French-speaking world since his death in 2005. His concept of a concentrationary art—the need for an urgent and constant aesthetic resistance to the continuing effects of the concentrationary universe—proved to be a major influence for Hannah Arendt and other ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD