Reclaiming Female Agency: Feminist Art History after Postmodernism

by Norma Broude (Editor)

This volume is the third in an influential series of anthologies by editors Norma Broude and Mary D. Garrard that challenge art history from a feminist perspective. Following their Feminism and Art Questioning the Litany (1982) and The Expanding Feminism and Art History (1992), this new volume identifies female agency as a central theme of recent feminist scholarship. Framed by a lucid and stimulating critical introduction, twenty-three essays on artists and issues from the Renaissance to the present, written in the 1990s and after, offer a nuanced critique of the poststructuralist premises of 1980s feminist art history.



Allison Arieff, Janis Bergman-Carton, Babette Bohn, Norma Broude, Anna C. Chave, Julie Cole, Bridget Elliott, Mary D. Garrard, Sheila ffolliott, Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby, Ruth E. Iskin, Geraldline A. Johnson, Amelia Jones, Maud Lavin, Julie Nicoletta, Carol Ockman, Erica Rand, John B. Ravenal, Lisa Saltzman, Mary D. Sheriff

Genres: Art, Feminism, Art History, Nonfiction, Gender Studies

486 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2005

Reviews

[Jonette · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting...odd and out there!

[Abigail · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read this for my feminist art class this semester. It was enlightening and really fascinating.

[KaliNoel · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is definitely a collection of it's time, by two white scholars. Still, selections in it echoed new ideas of gender and sexuality that have rooted themselves in modern activism.

[Reader Yuan · Rating 4 out of 5]

在现代之前的部分都还蛮喜欢的。特别是在早期，女艺术家们受限制于当时的性别权力结构，却依然做出那些了那些确立并体现自己主体性的创作。即使创作者本人未出现在画面里，她们也能通过各种对于图像的设计让观者无法忽视画框外执笔的人。而作为patron的那些位高权重的女性在男性作家笔下被描绘，也隐隐透露出将女性排斥在政治场域外的气息。即使她们拥有政治权力，但她们的形象必须通过男性视觉语言被编码。印象派那一章，对于某种特性、美德或流派的性别化，也是我们已经熟悉的戏码。拥有刻板印象中所谓男性品质的一切事物都具有priority。而之后那些表达与创作，女性成为消费社会的一部分，主体性变得模糊、暧昧。（当然也是因为我没什么鉴赏能力，很多分析与理论对我来说不是特别有意义……）