Description
Book SynopsisThis work offers a sustained examination of Dutch 17th-century genre painting from a theoretically informed feminist perspective.
Trade Review"This book will take a place at the forefront of studies of Dutch genre painting and of feminist art history and visual culture, setting new paradigms for these fields.
Shifting Priorities is a sophisticated work of sustained originality, sharp intelligence, and sure judgments of how paintings operated as a negotiation of social discourses, historical shifts, and relations of both class and gender." -- Griselda Pollock * University of Leeds *
"With an emphasis on methodological shifts, this book adds a distinctive voice to the recent outpouring of publications on Dutch genre painting. As a focused historiography of some of the changes that continue to alter the scholarship of Netherlandish art,
Shifting Priorities demonstrates how intellectually lively and contested our terrain remains." --
Historians of Netherlandish Art Book Reviews"This book of essays will remain an important and lasting contribution, both for students of Dutch art and for students of methodology." --
Seventeenth-Century News
