In Generations and Geographies in the Visual Arts: Femininst Readings, the challenge of contemporary feminist theory encounters the provocation of the visual arts made by women in the twentieth century. The major issue is difference: secual, cultural and social. Pollock points to the singularity of each artist's creative negotiation of time and historical and political circumstance; the book calls attention to the significance of place, location and cultural diversity, connecting issues of sexuality to those of nationality, imperialism, migration, dispora and genocide.
An analysis of the visual arts from a critical feminist perspective. Women artists',responses to motherhood, the body, the land and history are examined.
An analysis of the visual arts from a critical feminist perspective. Women artists',responses to motherhood, the body, the land and history are examined.