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Griselda Pollock (born in 1949) is a prominent art historian and cultural analyst, and a world-renowned scholar of international, post-colonial feminist studies in the visual arts. She is best known for her theoretical and methodological innovation, combined with deeply engaged readings of historical and contemporary art, film and cultural theory. Since 1977, Pollock has been one of the most influential scholars of modern, avant-garde art, postmodern art, and contemporary art. She is also a major influence in feminist theory, feminist art history and gender studies. Art history usually refers to the history of the visual arts. ... The Mona Lisa is one of the most recognizable artistic paintings in the Western world. ... A work similar to Marcel Duchamps Fountain Avant garde (written avant-garde) is a French phrase, one of many French phrases used by English speakers. ... Postmodern art is a term used to describe art which is thought to be in contradiction to some aspect of modernism, or to have emerged or developed in its aftermath. ... Contemporary art can be defined variously as art produced at this present point in time or art produced since World War II. The definition of the word contemporary would support the first view, but museums of contemporary art commonly define their collections as consisting of art produced since World War... Feminist theory is the extension of feminism into theoretical, or philosophical, ground. ... This article is about the academic discipline of art history. ... Gender studies is a field of interdisciplinary study which analyzes the phenomenon of gender. ...

Life and Work

Born in South Africa, Griselda Pollock grew up in both French and English Canada. Moving to Britain during her teens, Pollock studied Modern History at Oxford (1967-1970) and History of European Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art (1970-72). She received her doctorate in 1980 for a study of Vincent Van Gogh and Dutch Art: A reading of his notions of the modern. After teaching at Reading and Manchester universities, Pollock came to Leeds in 1977 as Lecturer in History of Art and Film and was appointed to a Personal Chair in Social and Critical Histories of Art in 1990. In 2001 she became Director of Centre for Cultural Analysis, Theory and History at the University of Leeds, where she is Professor of Social and Critical Histories of Art.

Art History

Griselda Pollock continually challenges the dominant museum models of art and history that have been so excluding of women's artistic contributions, and articulates the complex relations between femininity, modernity, psychoanalysis and representation. Pollock is engaged in French feminism and psychoanalysis. She is best known for her work on the artists Jean-François Millet, Vincent van Gogh, Mary Cassatt, Eva Hesse, Bracha L. Ettinger and Charlotte Salomon. French feminism (which is a phrase mostly used in English-speaking countries) refers to the work of a group of feminists in France from the 1970s to the early 1990s. ... Today psychoanalysis comprises several interlocking theories concerning the functioning of the mind. ... Jean-FranÃ§ois Millet (October 4, 1814 â€“ January 20, 1875) was a French painter and one of the founders of the Barbizon school in rural France. ... van Gogh redirects here. ... Self-portrait (1878) by painter Mary Cassatt Mary Stevenson Cassatt (May 22, 1844 â€“ June 14, 1926) was an American painter and printmaker. ... Eva Hesse (January 11, 1936 - May 29, 1970), was a German-born American sculptor, known for her pioneering work in materials such as latex, fiberglass, and plastics. ... Bracha L. Ettinger (also known as Bracha Ettinger, Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger, Hebrew: ×‘×¨×›×” ××˜×™× ×’×¨, ×‘×¨×›×” ×œ×™×›×˜× ×‘×¨×’-××˜×™× ×’×¨) is a renowned artist, painter, photographer, theorist and psychoanalyst. ... Charlotte Salomon (1917-1943) was a German Jewish artist born in Berlin. ...

Feminism

Griselda Pollock is regarded as a key proponent of feminism and art history^[1] Feminists redirects here. ... This article is about the academic discipline of art history. ...

Publications

Millet, London Oresko Books, 1977.

(& Fred Orton) Vincent van Gogh: Artist of his Time, Phaidon Press, Oxford, 1978; US-edition: E. P. Dutton ISBN 0714818836

edited and re-published in: Orton & Pollock 1996, pp. 3-51

(& Fred Orton) Les Données Bretonnantes: La Prairie de Représentation, in: Art History III/3, 1980, pp. 314-344

re-published in: Orton & Pollock 1996, pp. 53-88

Mary Cassatt, London Jupiter Books, 1980

Artists mythologies and media genius, madness and art history, in: Screen XXI/3, 1980, pp. 57-96

Vincent van Gogh in zijn Hollandse jaren: Kijk op stad en land door Van Gogh en zijn tijdgenoten 1870-1890, exh. cat. Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh, 1980/1981 (no ISBN)

Old Mistresses; Women, Art and Ideology, London Routledge & Kegan (Griselda Pollock with Rozsika Parker), 1981.

(& Fred Orton) Cloisonism?, in: Art History V/3, 1982, pp. 341-348

re-published in: Orton & Pollock 1996, pp. 115-124

The Journals of Marie Bashkirtseff, London Virago ( newly introduced with Rozsika Parker), 1985.

Framing Feminism: Art & the Women’ s Movement 1970-85, (Griselda Pollock with Rozsika Parker) 1987.

Vision and Difference: Femininity, Feminism, and Histories of Art, London Routledge and New York Methuen, 1987.

Agency and the Avant-Garde: Studies in Authorship and History by Way of Van Gogh, in Block 1989/15, pp. 5-15

re-published in: Orton & Pollock 1996, pp. 315-342

Dealing with Degas: Representations of Women and the Politics of Vision (co-edited Richard Kendall). London Pandora Books, 1992, (now Rivers Oram Press, London.

Avant-Garde Gambits: Gender and the Colour of Art History, London Thames and Hudson, 1993.

Trouble in the Archives. Special Issue Differences vol. 4 no. 3, 1992.

Generations and Geographies: Critical Theories and Critical Practices in Feminism and the Visual Arts, ed. Routledge, 1996. ISBN 0-415-14128-1

(& Fred Orton) Avant-Gardes and Partisans Reviewed, Manchester University Press, 1996 ISBN 0719043980

The Ambivalence of Pleasure, Getty Art History Oral Documentation Project, interview by Richard Cándida Smith, Getty Research Institute, 1997.

Mary Cassatt Painter of Modern Women, London Thames & Hudson: World of Art, 1998.

On not seeing Provence: Van Gogh and the landscape of consolation, 1888-1889, in: Framing France: The representation of landscape in France, 1870-1914, ed. Richard Thomson, Manchester University Press 1998, pp. 81-118 ISBN 0719049350

Aesthetics. Politics. Ethics Julia Kristeva 1966-96, Special Issue Guest Edited parallax, no. 8, 1998.

Differencing the Canon: Feminism and the Histories of Art, London, Routledge, 1999.

Looking Back to the Future: Essays by Griselda Pollock from the 1990s, New York, G&B New Arts, introduced by Penny Florence, 2000. ISBN 90-5701-132-8

Work and the Image, 2 vols. Edited By Griselda Pollock with Valerie Mainz, London:Ashgate Press, 2000.

Vision and Difference: Feminism, Femininity and the Histories of Art, Routledge Classics, 2003.

Psychoanalysis and the Image. (ed). Boston and Oxford: Blackwell, 2006. ISBN 1-4051-3461-5

Encountering Eva Hesse, edited by Griselda Pollock with Vanessa Corby, London and Munich: Prestel, 2006.

Museums after Modernism, edited by Griselda Pollock with Joyce Zemans Boston: Blackwells, 2007.

Encounters in the Virtual Feminist Museum Time, Space and the Archive, London: Routledge, 2007. ISBN 978-0-415-41374-9

The Sacred and the Feminine, edited by Griselda Pollock and Victoria Turvey-Sauron. London I.B. Tauris, 2008.

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Life and Work

Art History

Feminism

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