Griselda Pollock provides concrete historical analyses of key moments in the for
mation of modern culture to reveal the sexual politics at the heart of modernist
art. Crucially, she not only explores a feminist re-reading of the works of can
onical male Impressionist and Pre-Raphaelite artists including Edgar Degas and D
ante Gabriel Rossetti, but also re-inserts into art history their female contemp
oraries - women artists such as Berthe Morisot and Mary Cassatt. Pollock discuss
es the work of women artists such as Mary Kelly and Yve Lomax, highlighting the
problems of working in a culture where the feminine is still defined as the obje
ct of the male gaze.
Now published with a new introduction, Vision and Differ
ence is as powerful as ever for all those seeking not only to understand the his
tory of the feminine in art, but also to develop new strategies for representati
on for the future.
