Description: This groundbreaking study, the definitive introduction to the work of artist Mary Cassatt, places her work in the wider context of nineteenth-century feminism and art theory and is now updated with color illustrations.
Brief description: Griselda Pollock is a professor of social and critical histories of art, director of the Centre for Cultural Analysis, Theory and History (CentreCATH) at the University of Leeds, and internationally recognized as a leading feminist art historian and cultural theorist. Recipient of the 2020 Holberg Prize for her contributions to feminist art history and cultural studies, her many books include Old Mistresses: Women, Art and Ideology (coauthored with Roszika Parker), Vision and Difference: Femininity, Feminism and Histories of Art, and Differencing the Canon: Feminism and the Writing of Art's Histories.