Self and History: Essays in Honor of Linda Nochlin

by D'Souza, Aruna; D'Souza, Aruna; Nochlin, Linda

• ISBN13: 9780500282502
• ISBN10: 0500282501
• Edition: 00
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-02-17
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson

Summary

The subject of this book is the crucial intersection of subjectivity and the historical moment in all its complexity. It reflects the pioneering critical influence art historian Linda Nochlin has had upon the most advanced thought in art history today. The range of issues addressed by the eminent American and British contributors reflects Nochlin's varied approaches to the visual world.

Table of Contents

Introduction Fragments and Paradoxes: Linda Nochlin's Theories of Art	7	(10)
Aruna D'Souza
About Linda Nochlin	17	(8)
Robert Rosenblum
Lascivious Corpus: Lequeu's Architecture	25	(18)
Ewa Lajer-Burcharth
Enlightenment and Lubricity	43	(12)
John Goodman
The Axe of the Medusa	55	(14)
Robert Simon
Realism Revisited	69	(8)
Abigail Solomon-Godeau
Framing Femininity in Manet's Portrait of Mlle E. G.	77	(14)
Tamar Garb
Identity and Non-Identity in Gauguin's Te nave nave fenua	91	(12)
Stephen Eisenman
Women, Icons and Power	103	(14)
Carol Ockman
The Heroism of Understatement: the Ideological Machinery of La Fresnaye's Conquest of the Air	117	(10)
Kenneth E. Silver
John Cotton Dana's Progressive Museum	127	(10)
Carol Duncan
Color War: Picasso's Matisse Period	137	(16)
Rosalind Krauss
Kouroi and Communists: A Memoir of the Spanish Civil War	153	(12)
Eunice Lipton
The Immigrant	165	(10)
Molly Nesbit
Of Self and History: Exchanges with Linda Nochlin	175	(26)
Moira Roth
Afterword	201	(5)
Linda Nochlin
Notes and Sources	206	(13)
List of Illustrations	219	(2)
Bibliography Complete Bibliography of the Writings of Linda Nochlin	221
Thomas McDonough