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100			_aPollock, Griselda _965768
245			_aDifferencing the canon : feminist desire and the writing of Art's histories
260			_aLondon _bRoutledge _c2006
300			_axviii,345p.
505			_aCONTENTS List of illustrations x Preface xiii Acknowledgements xviii PART I Firing the canon 1 About canons and culture wars 3 Theoretical models for the critique of the canon: ideology and myth 6 What is the canon - structurally? 9 Psycho-symbolic investment in the canon, or, Being childish about artists 13 2 Differencing: feminism's encounter with the canon 23 Three positions 23 About difference and differance 29 Thinking about women ... Artists 33 PART II Reading against the grain: reading for ... 3 The ambivalence of the maternal body: re/drawing Van Gogh 41 A feminist reading of Van Gogh? 41 Bending women 43 Inside a studio behind the vicarage in Nuenen 46 Sexuality and representation 50 What are they really talking about? 53 Class, sexuality and animality 55 Freud, Van Gogh and the Wolf Man: Mater and nanny 57 Who's seeing whose mother? Feminist desire and the case of Van Gogh 60 4 Fathers of modern art: mothers of invention: cocking a leg at Toulouse-Lautrec 65 Late-coming and premature departure 65 Debasement and desire: registers of social and sexual difference 67 Looking up to dad 70 When small is not enough 75 Whose [who's] missing [the] Phallus? What's in the gloves? 77 Deconstructing the derriere: the physical other 81 Loving women 87 Conclusion 90 PART III Heroines: setting women in the canon 5 The female hero and the making of a feminist canon: Artemisia Gentileschi's representations of Susanna and Judith 97 Seeing the artist or reading the picture? 98 Feminists and art history: what women? 98 Susanna and the Elders 103 Trauma, memory and the relief of representation 108 Decapitation or castration: judith Slaying Holofernes 115 6 Feminist mythologies and missing mothers: Virginia Woolf, Charlotte Bronte, Artemisia Gentileschi and Cleopatra 129 A feminist myth of the twentieth century: murdered creativity and the female body 129 Lucy Snowe meets Cleopatra: the resistant feminist reader and the female body 132 Missing mothers: inscriptions in the feminine: Cleopatra 138 Coda: rapish scenes and Lucretia 158 7 Revenge: Lubaina Himid and the making of new narratives for new histories 169 A post-colonial feminist revenge on the canon? 169 On some painting in Revenge 173 History painting 186 On mourning and melancholia 189 Covenant versus terrorism 191 PART IV Who is the other? 8 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 Letter I: On the question of I and non-I 201 Letter II: On the social other 213 Letter III: On the jouissance of the other 226 Letter IV: On the mortality of the other 230 Letter V: On the exhibition with the other 234 9 A tale of three women: seeing in the dark, seeing double, at least, with Manet 247 Introduction: Laure, Jeanne and Berthe 247 Berthe 258 Jeanne 261 Laure 277 Conclusion 305 Epilogue 317 Bibliography 318 Index 328
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