Reclaiming Female Agency

by Broude, Norma

• ISBN13: 9780520242524
• ISBN10: 0520242521
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-04-07
• Publisher: Univ of California Pr

Summary

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 History: Questioning the Litany(1982) and The Expanding Discourse: 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. Contributors: 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

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments	vii
INTRODUCTION RECLAIMING FEMALE AGENCY
Female Subjective Agency and Its Repression
Challenging Masculinist Psychoanalysis
Life after Death (of the Author)
The Gendering of Style
Women Artists Negotiate the Binaries
Intersections of Gender and Ethnicity
A Strategy for the Future
Norma Broude and Mary D. Garrard	1	(26)
1 HERE'S LOOKING AT ME
Sofonisba Anguissola and the Problem of the Woman Artist
Mary D. Garrard	27	(22)
2 LEARNING TO BE LOOKED AT
A Portrait of (the Artist as) a Young Woman in Agnès Merlet's Artemisia
Sheila ffolliott	49	(14)
3 ARTEMISIA'S HAND
Mary D. Garrard	63	(18)
4 THE ANTIQUE HEROINES OF ELISABETTA SIRANI
Babette Bohn	81	(20)
5 PICTURES FIT FOR A QUEEN
Peter Paul Rubens and the Marie de' Medici Cycle
Geraldine A. Johnson	101	(20)
6 THE PORTRAIT OF THE QUEEN
Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun's Marie-Antoinette en chemise
Mary D. Sheriff	121	(22)
7 DEPOLITICIZING WOMEN
Female Agency, the French Revolution, and the Art of Boucher and David
Erica Rand	143	(16)
8 NUDITY À LA GRECQUE IN 1799
Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby	159	(28)
9 A WOMAN'S PLEASURE
Ingres's Grande Odalisque
Carol Ockman	187	(16)
10 CONDUCT UNBECOMING
Daumiera nd Les Bas-Bleus
Janis Bergman-Carton	203	(14)
11 THE GENDERING OF IMPRESSIONISM
Norma Broude	217	(18)
12 SELLING, SEDUCTION, AND SOLICITING THE EYE
Manet's Bar at the Folies-Bergère
Ruth E. Iskin	235
13 MARY CASSATT
Modern Woman or the Cult of True Womanhood?
Norma Broude	259	(18)
14 THE "STRENGTH OF THE WEAK" AS PORTRAYED BY MARIE LAURENCIN
Bridget Elliott	277	(24)
15 NEW ENCOUNTERS WITH LES DEMOISELLES D'AVIGNON
Gender, Race, and the Origins of Cubism
Anna C. Chave	301	(24)
16 THE NEW WOMAN IN HANNAH HÖCH'S PHOTOMONTAGES
Issues of Androgyny, Bisexuality, and Oscillation
Maud Lavin	325	(18)
17 CLAUDE CAHUN, MARCEL MOORE, AND THE COLLABORATIVE CONSTRUCTION OF A LESBIAN SUBJECTIVITY
Julie Cole	343	(18)
18 LOUISE BOURGEOIS'S FEMMES-MAISONS
Confronting Lacan
Julie Nicoletta	361	(12)
19 RECONSIDERING THE STAIN
On Gender and the Body in Helen Frankenthaler's Painting
Lisa Saltzman	373	(12)
20 MINIMALISM AND BIOGRAPHY
Anna C. Chave	385	(24)
21 THE "SEXUAL POLITICS" OF THE DINNER PARTY
A Critical Context
Amelia Jones	409	(26)
22 CULTURAL COLLISIONS
Identity and History in the Work of Hung Liu
Allison Arieff	435	(12)
23 SHIRIN NESHAT
Double Vision
John B. Ravenal	447	(12)
Contributors	459	(4)
Index	463