From the 1970s to the early-1990s, the discourse surrounding aesthetics disappeared from the study of art history, theory and cultural studies. Claims for the aesthetic value of art-works were thought of as elitist and politically regressive. This work considers this aesthetics, demonstrating its cross-disciplinary relevance.

Berthe Morisot Mary Cassatt Eva Gonzales and Marie Bracquemond. .

Explores the sacred and the feminine in art, architecture, literature, art history, music, philosophy, theology, critical theory and cultural studies. This book addresses key issues in feminist questions of creativity, the imaginary and the sacred as 'otherness', examining the ways in which visual practices have explored this territory.

Presents work by a generation of scholars responding directly to the author's idea of the 'travelling concept'. This work makes a contribution to the territorial conflicts between visual culture, art history and cultural studies.

Presents work by a generation of scholars responding directly to the author's idea of the 'travelling concept'. This title makes a contribution to the territorial conflicts between visual culture, art history and cultural studies.

Chapters on the structures of art historical writing are complemented by studies of Elizabeth Siddall, Mary Cassatt and Berthe Morisot, which deal with themes of modernity, sexuality and repression.

Examines the key contemporary debates in museum studies. This book engages with vital issues in the practice of art-making and art-exhibiting.

Explores the deep appeal of the Bluebeard story for twentieth-century culture. This book focuses how the modernist imagination used the elements of Bluebeard's tale to explore masculinity's anxieties in the face of the emerging demands of women for redefinition and sexual equality.

Explores the deep appeal of the Bluebeard story for twentieth-century culture. This book focuses how the modernist imagination used the elements of Bluebeard's tale to explore masculinity's anxieties in the face of the emerging demands of women for redefinition and sexual equality.

Featuring studies of Canova's Three Graces and women artist's modernist reclamations of the female body, this book traverses the rupture of fascism and the Holocaust and ponders the significance of painting and drawing in their aftermath.

A study of the American artist, Mary Cassatt, in the WORLD OF ART series. The author takes the artists' interest in old masters and contemporaries such as Manet, into account, whilst exploring her influence over French art of the 1870s. The images of women and children are also considered.

Brings together a team of international scholars who demonstrate ways to apply psychoanalytical resources in the study of international modern art and visual representation. This title examines psychoanalytic concepts, values, debates and controversies that have been hallmarks of visual representation in the modern and contemporary periods.

An analysis of the visual arts from a critical feminist perspective. Women artists' responses to motherhood, the body, the land and history are examined.

Examines the most important issues at the heart of contemporary debates in museum studies. This title includes original essays by noted artists, curators, and art historians. It engages with vital issues in the practice of art-making and art-exhibiting.

In this major new book, renowned art historian Griselda Pollock makes a compelling intervention into a debate at the very centre of feminist art history: should the traditional canon of the Old Masters be rejected, replaced or reformed?

A selection of essays by Griselda Pollock, engaging areas of contemporary theory, especially sexed subjectivities, post-colonialism and Marxist-informed history. Penny Florence's commentary places Pollock's critique within the context of developments that have taken place since the 1970s.

Explores the sacred and the feminine in art, architecture, literature, art history, music, philosophy, theology, critical theory and cultural studies. This book addresses key issues in feminist questions of creativity, the imaginary and the sacred as 'otherness', examining the ways in which visual practices have explored this territory.

An introduction to the major events and debates in the early years of feminist art practice. A collection of articles, as well as broadsheet printed in facsimile, illustrate the history and diversity of the most important intervention in modern art.