Differencing the Canon: Feminism and the Writing of Art's Histories (Re Visions : Critical Studies in the History and Theory of Art) - Hardcover

..."Pollock deesentializes the category "woman," here well described as a fiction of the canon that erases class and race in the modernist movement--a rubbing-out that feminist art history can write back in." -"SIGNS "[A] keen critique of the canon as a gendered and gendering institution intent on excluding those who differ from its hegemonic structure of European male power." -" RACAR "The flow of the book is wondrous, as Pollack builds each new idea onto the next, rounded out with rigorous research." -"Foreword, 4/99 ..."a densely woven text of art, literature, history, and theory... powerful... rewarding." -Steven Z. Levine, Bryn Mawr College, "Woman's Art Journal, Spring/Summer 2001

In this major book, Griselda Pollock engages boldly in the culture wars over `what is the canon?` and `what difference can feminism make?` Do we simply reject the all-male line-up and satisfy our need for ideal egos with an all women litany of artistic heroines? Or is the question a chance to resist the phallocentric binary and allow the ambiguities and complexities of desire - subjectivity and sexuality - to shape the readings of art that constantly displace the present gender demarcations?