Wednesday 7 February 2007

Griselda Pollock, 'Feminist Interventions in Arts Histories'

The formation of the feminist intervention negates the formal school of phallocentric masculinism and addressing the cultural, social, and political circumstances of production. Breaking down the subject into an analytical abstraction of causal concepts and analysing and reforming those parts and returning to the subject again. Challenges the notion of the woman/female as an object of male gaze and asserting them as subject. We cannot re-write women ( slot them into) the current history for that only reasserts the masculine history that ezxcluded them in the first place, and thus excluding them further. It is necessary to reassess the current faculty of binary history.

Taken from Vision and Difference, 1998, (Routledge Classics 2003) England

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