Synopses & Reviews
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
Synopsis
"Extremely stimulating and useful. The authors lay out a strategy for future art historians and theorists."and#151;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."and#151; Sue Taylor, Associate Professor of Art History, Portland State University
About the Author
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).
Table of Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction: Reclaiming Female Agency
1. Hereand#8217;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 Agnand#232;s Merletand#8217;s Artemisia
Sheila ffolliott
3. Artemisiaand#8217;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 deand#8217; Medici Cycle
Geraldine A. Johnson
6. The Portrait of the Queen: Elisabeth Vigand#233;e-Lebrunand#8217;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 and#224; la grecque in 1799
Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby
9. A Womanand#8217;s Pleasure: Ingresand#8217;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: Manetand#8217;s Bar at the Folies-Bergand#232;re
Ruth E. Iskin
13. Mary Cassatt: Modern Woman or the Cult of True Womanhood?
Norma Broude
14. The and#147;Strength of the Weakand#8221; as Portrayed by Marie Laurencin
Bridget Elliott
15. New Encounters with Les Demoiselles dand#8217;Avignon: Gender, Race, and the Origins of Cubism
Anna C. Chave
16. The New Woman in Hannah Hand#246;chand#8217;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 Bourgeoisand#8217;s Femmes-Maisons: Confronting Lacan
Julie Nicoletta
19. Reconsidering the Stain: On Gender and the Body in Helen Frankenthalerand#8217;s Painting
Lisa Saltzman
20. Minimalism and Biography
Anna C. Chave
21. The and#147;Sexual Politicsand#8221; 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