Overview

This volume is the third in an influential series of anthologies by editors Norma Broude and Mary D. Garrard that challenge art history from a feminist perspective. Following their Feminism and Art History: Questioning the Litany (1982) and The Expanding Discourse: Feminism and Art History (1992), this new volume identifies female agency as a central theme of recent feminist scholarship. Framed by a lucid and stimulating critical introduction, twenty-three essays on artists and issues from the Renaissance to the present, written in the 1990s and after, offer a nuanced critique of the poststructuralist premises of 1980s feminist art history.

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Author:   Norma Broude ,  Mary D. Garrard ,  Alison Arieff ,  Janis Bergman-Carton
Publisher:   University of California Press
Imprint:   University of California Press
Dimensions:   Width: 18.40cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   1.270kg
ISBN:  

9780520242517

ISBN 10:   0520242513
Pages:   486
Publication Date:   25 April 2005
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction: Reclaiming Female Agency 1. Here's Looking at Me: Sofonisba Anguissola and the Problem of the Woman Artist Mary D. Garrard 2. Learning to Be Looked At: A Portrait of (the Artist as) a Young Woman in Agnes Merlet's Artemisia Sheila ffolliott 3. Artemisia's Hand Mary D. Garrard 4. The Antique Heroines of Elisabetta Sirani Babette Bohn 5. Pictures Fit for a Queen: Peter Paul Rubens and the Marie de' Medici Cycle Geraldine A. Johnson 6. The Portrait of the Queen: Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun's Marie-Antoinette en chemise Mary D. Sheriff 7. Depoliticizing Women: Female Agency, the French Revolution, and the Art of Boucher and David Erica Rand 8. Nudity a la grecque in 1799 Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby 9. A Woman's Pleasure: Ingres's Grande Odalisque Carol Ockman 10. Conduct Unbecoming: Daumier and Les Bas-Bleus Janis Bergman-Carton 11. The Gendering of Impressionism Norma Broude 12. Selling, Seduction, and Soliciting the Eye: Manet's Bar at the Folies-Bergere Ruth E. Iskin 13. Mary Cassatt: Modern Woman or the Cult of True Womanhood? Norma Broude 14. The Strength of the Weak as Portrayed by Marie Laurencin Bridget Elliott 15. New Encounters with Les Demoiselles d'Avignon: Gender, Race, and the Origins of Cubism Anna C. Chave 16. The New Woman in Hannah Hoch's Photomontages: Issues of Androgyny, Bisexuality, and Oscillation Maud Lavin 17. Claude Cahun, Marcel Moore, and the Collaborative Construction of a Lesbian Subjectivity Julie Cole 18. Louise Bourgeois's Femmes-Maisons: Confronting Lacan Julie Nicoletta 19. Reconsidering the Stain: On Gender and the Body in Helen Frankenthaler's Painting Lisa Saltzman 20. Minimalism and Biography Anna C. Chave 21. The Sexual Politics of The Dinner Party: A Critical Context Amelia Jones 22. Cultural Collisions: Identity and History in the Work of Hung Liu Allison Arieff 23. Shirin Neshat: Double Vision John B. Ravenal Contributors Index

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Extremely stimulating and useful. The authors lay out a strategy for future art historians and theorists. - Paula Harper, University of Miami

"""Extremely stimulating and useful. The authors lay out a strategy for future art historians and theorists."" - Paula Harper, University of Miami"""

Author Information

Norma Broude, Professor of Art History at American University, is author of Impressionism, a Feminist Reading: The Gendering of Art, Science, and Nature in the 19th Century (1991), among other books. Mary D. Garrard is Professor Emerita of Art History at American University and author of Artemisia Gentileschi around 1622: The Shaping and Reshaping of an Artistic Identity (California, 2001), among other publications. Broude and Garrard are also the editors of The Power of Feminist Art: The American Movement of the 1970s, Power and Impact (1994).

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