Description
Continuing her feminist reconceptualisation of the ways we can experience and study the visual arts, world renowned art historian and cultural analyst, Griselda Pollock proposes a series of new encounters through virtual exhibitions with art made by women over the twentieth century. Challenging the dominant museum models of art and history that have been so exclusive of women's artistic contributions to the twentieth century, the virtual feminist museum stages some of the complex relations between femininity, modernity and representation.
Griselda Pollock draws on the models of both Aby Warburg's Mnemosyne Atlas and Freud's private museum of antiquities as well as Ettinger's concept of subjectivity as encounter to propose a differencing journey through time, space and archive. Featuring studies of Canova 's Three Graces and women artist's modernist reclamations of the female body, the book traverses the rupture of fascism and the Holocaust and ponders the significance of painting and drawing in their aftermath.
Artists featured include: Georgia O'Keeffe, Josephine Baker, Gluck, Charlotte Salomon, Bracha Ettinger and Christine Taylor Patten.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Part 1: The Afterlife of Images: Framing Fathers 1. What the Graces made me do... Time, Space and the Archive: Questions of Feminist Method 2. The Grace of Time: Narrativity, Sexuality and the Visual Encounter 3. The Object’s Gaze in the Freudian Museum Part 2: Femininity, Modernity and Representation 4.Visions of Sex ca 1920 Part 3: After Auschwitz: femininity and futurity 5. Jewish Space/Women’s Time: Encounters with History in the Artworking of Charlotte Salomon 1941-1942 6. The Graces of Catastrophe: Matrixial Time and Aesthetic Space confront the Archive of Disaster Part 4: Time and the Mark 7. The Time of Drawing : Drawing Time Christine Taylor Patten’s Micro/Macro series Index
