In Generations and Geographies, 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. Generations points to the singularity of each artist's creative negotiation of time and historical and political circumstance; Geographies calls attention to the significance of place, location and cultural diversity, connecting issues of sexuality to those of nationality, imperialism, migration, diaspora and genocide.
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ISBN:0415141273
ISBN:0415141281 (pbk.)
Physical Description:print xx, 300 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Publisher:London ; New York : Routledge, c1996.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Preface / Griselda Pollock -- The politics of theory: generations and geographies in feminist theory and the histories of art histories / Griselda Pollock -- Reading art? / Mieke Bal -- The knotted subject: hysteria, Irma and Cindy Sherman / Elisabeth Bronfen -- Gossip as testimony: a postmodern signature / Irit Rogoff -- The Venus Pudica: uncovering art history's 'hidden agendas' and pernicious pedigrees / Nanette Salomon -- On viewing three paintings by Jenny Saville: rethinking a feminist practice of painting / Alison Rowley -- Orlan Artist in the post-human age of mechanical reincarnation: body as ready (to be re-) made / Michelle Hirschhorn -- The anorexic body: contemporary installation art by women artists in Canada / Judith Mastai --
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