Looking Back to the Future: Essays on Art, Life and Death

Amstelveen: G+B Arts International, 2001. viii, 419 pages, illustrations; 23 cm. Critical Voices in Art, Theory and Culture. A very good copy with a few scattered pencil marks. "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, Pollock is recognized as a significant writer on art and arguably the most important voice in feminist art history in Britain. She has also become a significant force in the area of Cultural Studies and is widely read by those outside the discipline of Art History. In this selection of recent essays, she insightfully engages all major areas of contemporary theory, especially focusing on sexed subjectives, post-colonialism and Marxist-informed history. Penny Florence, in her commentary, 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." - Publisher. CONTENTS: Introduction: looking back to the future, by Penny Florence; Critical positions; Trouble in the archive; Femwatching in the 1990s; (Feminist) interventions in history: on the historical, the subjective, and the textual; Painting, feminism, history; Abandoned at the Mouth of Hell, or, A second look that does not kill: the uncanny coming to matrixial memory; Proximity and the color of desire: the laboring body and its sex; On Mary Cassat's Reading Le figaro, or, The case of the missing woman; Crows, blossoms and lust for death: cinema and the myth of Van Gogh the modern artist; Empire, identity, and place: masculinities in Greystoke: the legend of Tarzan; Territories of desire: reconsiderations of an African childhood; Deadly tales; Commentary: Griselda Pollock and feminism; Critique: Post/modernism in the fourth dimension, by Penny Florence.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.