Theory, ideology, politics: art history and its myths

• Autores: Griselda Pollock
• Localización: Art bulletin, ISSN 0004-3079, Vol. 78, Nº 1, 1996, págs. 16-22
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Part of a symposium on art history and its theories. Drawing on ironic comments about art “connoisseurs” made by Freud and on the myths that structure the writings of art historians, the writer discusses feminist work in the histories of art. Focusing on Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own and Charlotte Brontë's Villette, she examines how the heroines in each work are “figures” for feminist mythology. She shows that in these case studies the issues of class, race, and sexuality are once again elided by idealism—the mistaken deification of thought processes over the social practices within which they are founded.