Looking Back to the Future: 1990-1970

Griselda Pollock, in seeking to understand her own paradoxical role as critic and historian, has established not only a social and historical framework for her practice, but also a self-critical one. Internationally renowned, Pollock is recognized as a significant writer on art and arguably the most important voice in feminist art history in Britain as well as a significant force in the area of cultural studies.

In this selection of recent essays, Pollock engages all major areas of contemporary theory, especially focusing on sexed subjectivities, post-colonialism and Marxist-informed history. In her commentary, Penny Florence places Pollock's critique of modernism, art history, and criticism within the context of the social, political, and ideological developments that have taken place since the 1970s. Florence recognizes in Pollock's work a critical model that moves beyond the contradictions that take place within the history of art. Pollock's own essays and Florence's commentary elaborate the complexities in evaluating this prominent theorist and feminist,

Griselda Pollock is Professor of Social and Critical Histories of Art and Director of the Centre for Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds.

Introduction to the Series

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Introduction: Looking Back to the Future

1

(10)

Penny Florence

Essays

Griselda Pollock

Part I Critical Positions: Addressing the Now

Critical Positions

11

(12)

Trouble in the Archives

23

(18)

Femwatching in the 1990s

41

(12)

Part II Feminism, History, and Contemporary Practice in the Visual Arts

Feminist Interventions in History: On the Historical, the Subjective, and the Textual

53

(20)

Painting, Feminism, History

73

(40)

Abandoned at the Mouth of Hell or A Second Look That Does Not Kill: The Uncanny Coming to Matrixial Memory

113

(64)

Part III Historical Re-Visions

Proximity and the Color of Desire: The Laboring Body and Its Sex

177

(50)

On Mary Cassatt's Reading Le Figaro or The Case of the Missing Women

227

(50)

Part IV Cinematic Moments

Crows, Blossoms and Lust for Death--Cinema and the Myth of Van Gogh the Modern Artist

277

(34)

Empire, Identity, and Place: Masculinities in Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan

311

(28)

Part V Autohistories

Territories of Desire: Reconsiderations of an African Childhood

339

(32)

Deadly Tales

371

(20)

Commentary: Griselda Pollock and Feminist Critique: Post/Modernism in the Fourth Dimension

391

Penny Florence

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Looking Back to the Future: 1990-1970

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