Vision and Difference: Feminism, Femininity and Histories of Art

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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 Front Cover Vision and Difference Copyright Page Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction to the Routledge Classics Edition 1. Feminist interventions in the histories of art: an introduction 2. Vision, voice and power: feminist art histories and Marxism 3. Modernity and the spaces of femininity 4. Woman as sign in Pre-Raphaelite literature: the representation of Elizabeth Siddall (written in collaboration with Deborah Cherry) 5. A photo-essay: signs of femininity 6. Woman as sign: psychoanalytic readings 7. Screening the seventies: sexuality and representation in feminist practice – a Brechtian perspective Notes Bibliography Index