Question: Considering the ways in which feminist interventions in art history have developed our understanding of the genres of portraiture and history painting.
Answer: Our understanding of the genres of portraiture and history painting is, I will show, greatly enhanced by feminist interventions in art history. From feminist writers, such as Linda Nochlin and Griselda Pollock, we gain pathways into examining the history of art in a much greater and all-encompassing depth. I will consider here the kinds of interventions feminists to the development of our understanding of art. However, it is notable that female artists from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries were in no sense ‘feminists’, and any interventions they made must be related to the social, cultural and aesthetic ideals of the time; the kind of methods the later feminist movement provided....(short extract)
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- Subject: Art History
- Course: Art History
- Level: Degree
- Year: 2nd/3rd
- Mark: 65%
- Words: 2760
- Date submitted: March 06, 2009
- Date written: Not available
- References: Yes
- Document type: Essay*
- Essay ID: 918
