Griselda Pollock | Academic Influence

Why Is Griselda Pollock Influential?

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Griselda Pollock is professor of social and critical histories of art at the University of Leeds and is regarded as one of the most influential scholars of feminist theory, gender studies, and modern, avant-garde, postmodern and contemporary art. She studied at Oxford University (modern history) and Courtauld Institute of Art (history of European art).

Pollock has paid particular attention to the interactions of gender, class and art, with extensive work on the role of women in art history. Viewed through the lens of Michel Foucalt’s theories on social control, she has studied the life and work of artists such as Vincent Van Gogh, Mary Cassatt, Eva Hesse and Louise Bourgeois. As the founding director of the Centre for Cultural Analysis, Theory and History at the University of Leeds, she has created a space for the exploration and creation of feminist art.

In addition to her research and leadership roles, she has written numerous books and other works. Among her publications are Avant-Garde Gambits: Gender and the Colour of Art History, After-effects/After-images: Trauma and Aesthetic Transformation in the Virtual Feminist Museum, and Charlotte Salomon and the Theatre of Memory.

Most recently, Pollock was named the 2020 Holberg Prize Laureate for her contributions to feminist art.

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According to Wikipedia, Griselda Frances Sinclair Pollock is an accomplished art historian and cultural analyst of international, postcolonial feminist studies in the visual arts and visual culture. Since 1977, Pollock has been one of the most influential scholars of modern, avant-garde art, postmodern art, and contemporary art. She is a major influence in feminist theory, feminist art history and gender studies. She is renowned for her innovative feminist approaches to art history which aim to deconstruct the lack of appreciation and importance of women in art as other than objects for the male gaze.

Griselda Pollock's Published Works

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Published Papers

Vision and Difference: Femininity, Feminism and Histories of Art (1988) (338)
Differencing the canon : feminist desire and the writing of art's histories (1999) (181)
Thinking sociologically (2007) (178)
The Matrixial Borderspace (2006) (145)
Old Mistresses: Women, Art and Ideology (1981) (138)
Vision and Difference: Femininity, Feminism and the Histories of Art (1990) (128)
Generations and Geographies in the Visual Arts: Feminist Readings (2005) (87)
Framing Feminism: Art and the Women's Movement 1970-1985 (1987) (87)
What's Wrong with Images of Women?. (1977) (75)
Artists, Mythologies and Media — Genius, Madness and Art History (1980) (69)
Avant-Garde Gambits, 1888-1893: Gender and the Color of Art History. (1992) (58)
Modernity and the spaces of femininity (2015) (56)
Encounters in the Virtual Feminist Museum: Time, Space and the Archive (2007) (46)
Inside the Visible : An Elliptical Traverse of 20th Century Art in, of, and from the Feminine (1996) (46)
Psychoanalysis and the Image (2006) (37)
Thinking the Feminine (2004) (37)
The Spectacle of Women: Imagery of the Suffrage Campaign 1907–1914 (1990) (34)
Avant-gardes and partisans reviewed (1996) (33)
WOMAN AS SIGN IN PRE‐RAPHAELITE LITERATURE: A STUDY OF THE REPRESENTATION OF ELIZABETH SIDDALL (1984) (31)
A conversation on Judith Butler's bodies that matter: On the discursive limits of “Sex” (1995) (27)
Aesthetic Wit(h)nessing in the Era of Trauma (2010) (27)
Women, Art and Ideology: Questions for Feminist Art Historians (1983) (27)
PATRIARCHAL POWER AND THE PRE‐RAPHAELITES (1984) (25)
Museums After Modernism : Strategies of Engagement (2007) (25)
Dealing With Degas: Representations of Women and the Politics of Vision (1992) (25)
LES DONNÉES BRETONNANTES: LA PRAIRIE DE RÉPRESENTATION (1980) (23)
Un‐Framing the Modern: Critical Space/Public Possibility (2008) (22)
Differencing the Canon: Feminism and the Writing of Art's Histories (1999) (21)
Art/Trauma/Representation (2009) (20)
POWER AND VISIBILITY IN THE CITY (1988) (20)
Fascinance and the Girl‐to‐M/Other Matrixial Feminine Difference (2008) (18)
VAN GOGH AND THE POOR SLAVES: IMAGES OF RURAL LABOUR AS MODERN ART (1988) (17)
With Other Eyes : Looking at Race and Gender in Visual Culture (2003) (16)
Concentrationary cinema : aesthetics as political resistance in Alain Resnais's Night and fog (1955) (2011) (16)
Old Bones and Cocktail Dresses: Louise Bourgeois and the Question of Age (1999) (15)
Discourses Conversations in Postmodern Art and Culture (1990) (15)
Beyond Oedipus: Feminist Thought, Psychoanalysis, and Mythical Figurations of the Feminine (2008) (15)
Women Artists at the Millenium (2006) (15)
Concentrationary memories : totalitarian terror and cultural resistance (2014) (14)
Mother Trouble: The Maternal-Feminine in Phallic and Feminist Theory in Relation to Bracha Ettinger’s Elaboration of Matrixial Ethics/Aesthetics (2009) (14)
Artemisia Gentileschi: The Image of the Female Hero in Italian Baroque Art (1990) (13)
Dialogue with Julia Kristeva (1998) (13)
Digital and Other Virtualities : Renegotiating the Image (2010) (13)
Whither Art History? (2014) (12)
Psychoanalysis and the image : transdisciplinary perspectives (2006) (12)
Territories of desire: reconsiderations of an African childhood (2005) (12)
The Dangers of Proximity: The Spaces of Sexuality and Surveillance in Word and Image (1994) (11)
Museums After Modernism (2007) (11)
Conceptual odysseys : passages to cultural analysis (2007) (11)
‘With my own eyes‘: Fetishism, the Labouring Body and the Colour of its Sex (1994) (11)
The Sacred and the Feminine: Imagination and Sexual Difference (2008) (11)
Mary Cassatt: Painter of Modern Women (1980) (10)
Beholding Art History: Vision, Place and Power (1995) (10)
Three artists (three women): modernism and the art of hesse, krasner and o'keefe (1998) (10)
From Conceptualism to Feminism : Lucy Lippard's Numbers Shows, 1969-74 (2012) (10)
The Image in Psychoanalysis and the Archaeological Metaphor (2008) (9)
The Politics of Theory: Generations and Geographies Feminist Theory and the Histories of Art Histories (2012) (8)
Liquid Modernity and Cultural Analysis (2007) (8)
Is Feminism a Trauma, a Bad Memory, or a Virtual Future? (2016) (8)
Where do Bunnys come from? From Hamsterdam to hubris (2010) (7)
Responses to Mieke Bal's `Visual Essentialism and the Object of Visual Culture' (2003) (2003) (7)
Feminism, Femininity and the Hayward Annual Exhibition 1978 (1979) (7)
Visual Politics of Psychoanalysis: Art and the Image in Post-Traumatic Cultures (2013) (7)
Looking back to the future : essays on art, life and death (2001) (7)
To Inscribe in the Feminine: A Kristevan Impossibility? or Femininity, Melancholy and Sublimation (1998) (7)
JACKSON POLLOCK, PAINTING, AND THE MYTH OF PHOTOGRAPHY (1983) (6)
More than Methodology (1982) (5)
Contaminated Land : Problems and Solutions, Second Edition (1998) (5)
Vision, voice and power: feminist art histories and Marxism (2015) (5)
Dangerous places: Ponar (1996) (5)
The Long Journey: Maternal Trauma, Tears and Kisses in a Work by Chantal Akerman (2010) (5)
The Grace of Time: narrativity, sexuality and a visual encounter in the Virtual Feminist Museum (2003) (5)
Revenge: Lubaina Himid and the making of new narratives for new histories (2013) (4)
Work, craft, and labour : visual representations in changing histories (2000) (4)
Yayoi Kusama Between Abstraction and Pathology (2008) (4)
Visibly Female : Feminism and Art Today : An Anthology (1987) (4)
Crimes, Confession and the Everyday: Challenges in Reading Charlotte Salomon’s Leben? oder Theater? 1941–1942 (2014) (4)
Feminist interventions in the histories of art: an introduction (2015) (4)
A tale of three women: seeing in the dark, seeing double, at least, with Manet (2013) (4)
Mary Kelly's Ballad of Kastriot Rexhepi: Virtual Trauma and Indexical Witness in the Age of Mediatic Spectacle (2004) (4)
Unexpected Turns: The Aesthetic, the Pathetic and the Adversarial in the Long Durée of Art's Histories (2012) (4)
Bluebeard's legacy : death and secrets from Bartók to Hitchcock (2009) (4)
Dossier on Melodrama: Report on the Weekend School (1977) (4)
Moments and Temporalities of the Avant-Garde “in, of, and from the feminine” (2010) (4)
In-ground barriers (1998) (4)
Melancholia and Cézanne's Portraits: Faces Beyond the Mirror (2008) (4)
Introduction – The Politics of Memory: From Concentrationary Memory to Concentrationary Memories (2014) (3)
Art as Transport-Station of Trauma? Haunting Objects in the Works of Bracha Ettinger, Sarah Kofman and Chantal Akerman (2013) (3)
Women, Art, and Art History: Gender and Feminist Analyses (2014) (3)
STARK ENCOUNTERS: MODERN LIFE AND URBAN WORK IN VAN GOGH'S DRAWINGS OF THE HAGUE 1881–3 (1983) (3)
Does Art Think?: How Can We Think the Feminine, Aesthetically? (2008) (3)
Stilled life: traumatic knowing, political violence, and the dying of Anna Frank (2007) (3)
Cockfights and Other Parades: Gesture, Difference, and the Staging of Meaning in Three Paintings by Zoffany, Pollock, and Krasner (2003) (3)
Charlotte Salomon and the Theatre of Memory (2008) (3)
“Femmes artistes / Artistes femmes” (2008) (3)
Screening the seventies: sexuality and representation in feminist practice – a Brechtian perspective (2015) (3)
WHAT DOES A WOMAN WANT? ART INVESTIGATING DEATH IN CHARLOTTE SALOMON'S LEBEN? ODER THEATER? (2007) (3)
The politics of display: Ann-Sofisidén's warte MAl!, art history and social documentary (2008) (3)
Beyond Words: The Acoustics of Movement, Memory, and Loss in Three Video Works by Martina Attille, Mona Hatoum, and Tracey Moffatt, ca. 1989 (2008) (2)
Feminism and Impressionism@@@Impressionism: A Feminist Reading: The Gendering of Art, Science, and Nature in the Nineteenth Century@@@Painted Love: Prostitution in French Art of the Impressionist Era@@@Dealing with Degas: Representations of Women and the Politics of Vision (1992) (2)
Mary Kelly : Social Process/Collaborative Action, 1970-1975 (1997) (2)
Ways of seeing: 40th anniversary issue (2012) (2)
Feminism and Culture: Theoretical Perspectives (2008) (2)
Les Données Bretonnantes (2018) (2)
Ecoutez la Femme: Hear/Here Difference (2010) (2)
Editorial: M(O)ther Trouble: Motherhood, Psychoanalysis, Feminism (2010) (2)
Freud's Egypt: Mummies and M/others (2007) (2)
Looking back to the future (2000) (2)
What Can We Say About Cézanne These Days (1990) (2)
Painting in a “Hybrid” Moment (2003) (2)
Back to Africa: from Natal to natal in the locations of memory (2006) (2)
Differencing: feminism's encounter with the canon (2013) (2)
Van Gogh and Holland: Nationalism and Modernism (1991) (2)
Laura Mulvey in conversation with Griselda Pollock (2010) (2)
Encountering Eva Hesse (2006) (2)
Feminist Interventions in Art's Histories (2013) (2)
Des canons et des guerres culturelles (2007) (2)
Theory, ideology, politics: art history and its myths (1996) (2)
Monroe’s Molly: Three Reflections on Eve Arnold’s Photograph of Marilyn Monroe Reading Ulysses (2016) (2)
Muscular Defences (2012) (2)
Art History and Visual Studies in Great Britain and Ireland (2012) (1)
Daydreaming Before History: The Last Works of Sigmund Freud and Charlotte Salomon (2007) (1)
The Work of Bracha Lichtenberg‐Ettinger: An introduction (1994) (1)
THE DARWIN COLLEGE LECTURES (2002) (1)
Saying No!: Profligacy versus austerity, or metaphor against model in justifying the Arts and Humanities in the contemporary university (2012) (1)
Sarah Kofman’s father’s pen and Bracha Ettinger’s mother’s spoon: trauma, transmission and the strings of virtuality (2014) (1)
Now and Then: Feminism, Art, History, A Critical Response to Documenta 11, CentreCATH Document 2 (2006) (1)
On Griselda Pollock, "Women, Art and Ideology: Questions for Feminist Art Historians" (1983) (1)
Fragment(s) of an Analysis: Chantal Akerman's News from Home (or a Mother‐Daughter Tale of Two Cities) (2008) (1)
Diaspora Without Resistance? Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's DICTEE and the Law of Genre (2008) (1)
REVISING OR REVIVING REALISM (1984) (1)
The Missing Photograph: Charlotte Salomon Life? or Theatre? as the Encounter with Maternal Loss (2009) (1)
The ambivalence of the maternal body: psychoanalytic readings of the legend of Van Gogh. (1994) (1)
Sacred Cows: Wandering in Feminism, Psychoanalysis and Anthropology (2007) (1)
A hungry eye (1998) (1)
Dreams or Nightmares (2020) (1)
Thinking in dark times: Assessing the transdisciplinary legacies of Zygmunt Bauman (2020) (1)
Feminism, art, the library and the politics of memory (2012) (1)
Now and Then, Feminism, Art, History: A Critical Response to Documenta 11 (2004) (1)
Don't take the Pissarro: but take the Monet and run! or Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter (1991) (1)
Painting as a backward glance that does not kill: Eurydice (1992–99) by Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger (1999) (1)
From horrorism to compassion: re-facing medusan otherness in dialogue with Adriana Caverero and Bracha Ettinger (2013) (1)
‘Akerman’ on-screen: Chantal Akerman behind and before the camera, and after cinema (2019) (1)
Monroe's gestures between trauma and ecstasy, Nympha and Venus: reading the cinematic gesture “Marilyn Monroe” through Aby Warburg (2017) (1)
Dreaming the Face, Screening the Death: Reflections for Jean-Louis Schefer on La Jetée (2005) (1)
Editorial: special issue: m(o)ther trouble (2010) (1)
Féminisme, art et histoire de l'art (1994) (1)
Placing the Self (2017) (0)
De Letrangete du Phallus ou le Feminin Entre Illusion et Desillusion (1998) (0)
Responses to Mieke Bal's `Visual Essentialism and the Object of Visual Culture' (2003) (2003) (0)
Lily Markiewicz : Promise (2001) (0)
Looking Back to the Future: 1990-1970 (2000) (0)
Labour—Modern and Rural: The Contradictions of Representing Handloom Weavers in Brabant in 1884 (1987) (0)
Some letters on feminism, politics and modern art: when Edgar Degas shared a space with Mary Cassatt at the Suffrage Benefit Exhibition, New York 1915 (2013) (0)
Erudite, intelligent, revealing (1998) (0)
Mary Kelly: Interim (1990) (0)
Liquid culture, the art of life and dancing with Tracey Emin: A feminist art historian/cultural analyst’s perspective on Bauman’s missing cultural hermeneutics (2020) (0)
Manet's Olympia@@@Alias Olympia: A Woman's Search for Manet's Notorious Model and Her Own Desire@@@Olympia: Paris in the Age of Manet@@@Avant-Garde Gambits, 1888-1893: Gender and the Color of Art History (1993) (0)
Life? Or Theatre? (2017) (0)
Three Essays on Trauma and Shame: Feminist Perspectives on Visual Poetics (2006) (0)
About canons and culture wars (2013) (0)
Troubl in the Archives (2015) (0)
Introduction (2007) (0)
Mary Kelly and Griselda Pollock in Conversation at the Vancouver Art Gallery, June 1989 (1989) (0)
Looking Jewish: Visual Culture and Modern Diaspora, Carol Zemel (2016) (0)
Feminism and art c . 1970: Writing (art) otherwise (2021) (0)
The missing wit(h)ness: Monroe, fascinance and the unguarded intimacy of being dead (2017) (0)
THE LONG JOURNEY HOME (2013) (0)
Auto-history: Frida Kahlo's political imagining (2013) (0)
Documanta XI: Critical Dialogue with Griselda Pollock (2004) (0)
What difference does "differencing" make to feminist art history? / Agata Jakubowska. (2000) (0)
Griselda Pollock: Féminisme et histoire de l'art (2007) (0)
Fathers of modern art: mothers of invention: cocking a leg at Toulouse-Lautrec (2013) (0)
Concentrationary legacies: thinking through the racism of minor differences (2009) (0)
The City and the Event: Disturbing, Forgetting and Escaping Memory (2015) (0)
Into Inside the Visible (2015) (0)
BERGSTEIN, MARY. Mirrors of Memory.(Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press). 2010. pp. 335.£ 18.95 (hbk). BOYLAN, MICHAEL and JOHNSON, CHARLES. Philosophy: An Innovative Introduction.(Boulder: Westview Press). 2010. pp. 344. $50.00 (pbk) (2010) (0)
Three Essays on Trauma and Shame (2006) (0)
Art of the western world : from Courbet to Kandinsky (1991) (0)
John Berger 1926-2017: The life and work of a great critic, broadcaster and storyteller (2017) (0)
Differencing Drawing (2020) (0)
Reading Modernity and the Holocaust with and against Winter in the Morning (2022) (0)
Staging Subjectivity: Love and Loneliness in the Scene of Painting with Charlotte Salomon and Edvard Munch (2017) (0)
Art for Women's Sake (1988) (0)
Looking back to the future : essays on art, life and death / essays by Griselda Pollock; introduction and commentary Penny Florence (2001) (0)
Woman as sign: psychoanalytic readings (2015) (0)
Hommes Fatals: Murder, Pathology and Hollywood’s Bluebeards (2009) (0)
Work and the Image: v. 2: Work in Modern Times - Visual Mediations and Social Processes (2018) (0)
Hypermental: Rampant Reality 1950-2000: From Salvador Dali to Jeff Koons (2001) (0)
The “View from Elsewhere”: (2021) (0)
Nameless Before the Concentrationary Void: Charlotte Salomon’s Leben? Oder Theater? 1941–42 ‘After Gurs’ (2014) (0)
THE ETHICAL CHALLENGE IN THE OBJECT QUALITY OF THE PROBLEM (2013) (0)
Griselda Pollock. Review of "Freud's Mexico: Into the Wilds of Psychoanalysis" by Rubén Gallo. (2013) (0)
Countering Memory Loss through Misrepresentation: What Does She Think Feminist Art History Is? (2013) (0)
Realism and ideology in André Fougeron's Le Pays des Mines (2018) (0)
Twelve Views of Manet's Bar (2021) (0)
Women who are artists / Artists who are women (2008) (0)
On viewing three paintings by Jenny Saville (2005) (0)
Knowing Cruelty: (2019) (0)
Work in modern times : visual meditations and social processes (2000) (0)
In Other WORLDS (2013) (0)
Feminism and Language (2019) (0)
‘How the political world crashes in on my personal everyday’: Lubaina Himid’s Conversations and Voices: Towards an Essay About Cotton.com (2017) (0)
Fathers of modern art, mothers of invention (1992) (0)
INTRODUCTION Matrix as a Sensing-Thinking Apparatus (2020) (0)
Abstracts and Keywords (2004) (0)
Canons and Cultural Wars (2007) (0)
Killing Men and Dying Women: Gesture and Sexual Difference (1999) (0)
Queer and Feminist Voices Writing/Facing Death: Subjectivity, Mothers and Embodiment Beyond the Public Domain (2015) (0)
The lessons of Janina Bauman: Cultural memory from the Holocaust (2011) (0)
Labour—Modern and Rural: The Contradictions of Representing Handloom Weavers in Brabant in 1884 (1987) (0)

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