Avant-Garde Gambits 1888-1893: Gender and the Color of Art History

by Griselda Pollock

In the Walter Neurath Memorial Lecture, Professor Pollock proposes the avant-garde as a series of gambits. Based on Gauguin's 1892 painting of his Tahitian wife, Manao Tupapau, she poses questions of cultural, sexual and ethnic difference to make us all self-critical in regard to art history.

Genres: Art History, Art

80 pages, Hardcover

First published April 1, 1993

About the author

Griselda Pollock is a visual theorist, cultural analyst and scholar of international, postcolonial feminist studies in the visual arts. Based in England, she is well known for her theoretical and methodological innovation, combined with readings of historical and contemporary art, film and cultural theory. She is professor of social and critical histories of art at the University of Leeds.

Reviews

[Margaux Tatin Blanc]

Always fascinating to reframe what the media wants us to believe... and Pollock is definitely the writer adn the analyst to help us do it!