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Book SynopsisChallenges 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 volume identifies female agency as a central theme of feminist scholarship. It also features essays on artists and issues from the Renaissance onwards.
Trade Review"Extremely stimulating and useful. The authors lay out a strategy for future art historians and theorists." - Paula Harper, University of Miami"
Table of ContentsPreface 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 Agnes 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 Vigee-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 a 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-Bergere 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 Hoch'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
