Maitresses d'autrefois - Femmes, art et ideologie

Originally published in English in 1981 as Old Mistresses. Women, Art, and Ideology and translated here into French for the first time under the title Ma-esses d-autrefois: Femmes, art et id-ogie, this ninth volume of the Lectures maison rouge series is not a history of women-s art. Rather, this seminal book by Rozsika Parker and Griselda Pollock is far more radical and emancipatory and, indeed, still relevant today.
It combines in-depth case studies-from Sofonisba Anguissola, -isabeth Vig-Le Brun and Berthe Morisot to Meret Oppenheim, Eva Hesse and Mary Kelly-with analyses of the structures of artistic production and dynamic developments on the oriented way in which the discipline -art history- has been forged, socially and symbolically. Spanning art history from Antiquity and the Middle Ages to modern art and the feminist practices of the 1970s, Parker and Pollock offer a salutary investigation to all those who not only want to add feminine names to art his