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.
Contributors: Allison Arieff, Janis Bergman-Carton, Babette Bohn, Norma Broude, Anna C. Chave, Julie Cole, Bridget Elliott, Mary D. Garrard, Sheila ffolliott, Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby, Ruth E. Iskin, Geraldline A. Johnson, Amelia Jones, Maud Lavin, Julie Nicoletta, Carol Ockman, Erica Rand, John B. Ravenal, Lisa Saltzman, Mary D. Sheriff
Reclaiming Female Agency Feminist Art History after Postmodernism
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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"I found the individual essays fascinating. . . . Broude and Garrard's introduction . . . helped clarify for me the current state of the affairs in feminist art history; their approach is both inspired and inspiring."— Sue Taylor, Associate Professor of Art History, Portland State University
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 Agnès 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 Vigée-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 à 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-Bergère
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 Höch’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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