Art, Design and Visual Culture

The Black Female Body in American Literature and Art

Performing Identity

By Caroline Brown

Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

This book examines how African-American writers and visual artists interweave icon and inscription in order to re-present the black female body, traditionally rendered alien and inarticulate within Western discursive and visual systems. Brown considers how the writings of Toni Morrison, Gayl Jones,...

Published December 20th 2011 by Routledge

Print, Visuality, and Gender in Eighteenth-Century Satire

“The Scope in Ev’ry Page”

By Katherine Mannheimer

Series: Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature

This study interprets eighteenth-century satire’s famous typographical obsession as a fraught response to the Enlightenment’s "ocularcentric" epistemological paradigms, as well as to a print-cultural moment identified by book-historians as increasingly "visual" — a moment at which widespread...

Published May 25th 2011 by Routledge

Creating Second Lives

Community, Identity and Spatiality as Constructions of the Virtual

Edited by Astrid Ensslin, Eben Muse

Series: Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture

This book aims to provide insights into how ‘second lives’ in the sense of virtual identities and communities are constructed textually, semiotically and discursively, specifically in the online environment Second Life and Massively Multiplayer Online Games such as World of Warcraft. The book’...

Published April 24th 2011 by Routledge

The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader

2nd Edition

Edited by Amelia Jones

Series: In Sight: Visual Culture

Feminism is one of the most important perspectives from which visual culture has been theorized and historicized over the past forty years. Challenging the notion of feminism as a unified discourse, this second edition of The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader assembles a wide array of writings...

Published January 6th 2010 by Routledge

Doing Gender in Media, Art and Culture

Edited by Rosemarie Buikema, Iris van der Tuin

Doing Gender in Media, Art and Culture is an introductory text for students specialising in gender studies. The truly interdisciplinary and intergenerational approach bridges the gap between humanities and the social sciences, and it showcases the academic and social context in which gender studies...

Published May 17th 2009 by Routledge

Encounters in the Virtual Feminist Museum

Time, Space and the Archive

By Griselda Pollock

Continuing her feminist reconceptualisation of the ways we can experience and study the visual arts, world renowned art historian and cultural analyst, Griselda Pollock proposes a series of new encounters through virtual exhibitions with art made by women over the twentieth century. Challenging the...

Published November 21st 2007 by Routledge

Self/Image

Technology, Representation, and the Contemporary Subject

By Amelia Jones

Including over 100 illustrations from mainstream film to independent film, video art, performance and the visual arts, this important and original book explores how technology has affected artists' abilities and forms to express themselves. From analogue photography to more recent artistic...

Published October 12th 2006 by Routledge

Jewish Identities in American Feminist Art

Ghosts of Ethnicity

By Lisa E. Bloom

Featuring sixty-seven illustrations, and providing an important reckoning and visualization of the previously hidden Jewish 'ghosts' within US art, Jewish Identities in American Feminist Art addresses the veiled role of Jewishness in the understanding of feminist art in the...

Published May 3rd 2006 by Routledge

Gender and Aesthetics

An Introduction

By Carolyn Korsmeyer

Series: Understanding Feminist Philosophy

Feminist approaches to art are extremely influential and widely studied across a variety of disciplines, including art theory, cultural and visual studies, and philosophy. Gender and Aesthetics is an introduction to the major theories and thinkers within art and aesthetics from a philosophical...

Published February 11th 2004 by Routledge

Vision and Difference

Feminism, Femininity and Histories of Art, 3rd Edition

By Griselda Pollock

Series: Routledge Classics

Griselda Pollock provides concrete historical analyses of key moments in the formation of modern culture to reveal the sexual politics at the heart of modernist art. Crucially, she not only explores a feminist re-reading of the works of canonical male Impressionist and Pre-Raphaelite artists...

Published April 23rd 2003 by Routledge

Women Making Art

History, Subjectivity, Aesthetics

By Marsha Meskimmon

Women have been making art for centuries, yet their work has been seen as secondary or has gone unrecognised altogether. Women Making Art asks why this is so, and what it would take for us to realise the extent of women's extraordinary contribution to the arts. Marsha Meskimmon mobilises...

Published January 15th 2003 by Routledge

Concise Dictionary of Women Artists

Edited by Delia Gaze

This book includes some 200 complete entries from the award-winning Dictionary of Women Artists, as well as a selection of introductory essays from the main volume....

Published June 30th 2001 by Routledge

Beyond the Frame

Feminism and Visual Culture, Britain 1850 -1900

By Deborah Cherry

Beyond the Frame rewrites the history of Victorian art to explore the relationships between feminism and visual culture in a period of heady excitement and political struggle. Artists were caught up in campaigns for women's enfranchisement, education and paid work, and many were drawn into...

Published November 22nd 2000 by Routledge

Differencing the Canon

Feminism and the Writing of Art's Histories

By Griselda Pollock

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...

Published February 3rd 1999 by Routledge