GRISELDA POLLOCK – A PROJECT OF FEMINIST RE-EVALUATION OF ART HISTORY

Text topic: Themes

Text author: Јелена Михајлов

This paper deals with some of the key concepts in the work of Griselda Pollock, one of the most prominent feminist art historians. Since the 1970s, G. Pollock has been one of the most influential scholars of feminist studies in the visual arts. In her texts, she implements the analysis of dominant methodological and theoretical approaches in art history and criticizes ways in which the achievements of women artists have been valuated and recorded i.e. ignored, excluded or underestimated in the institutionally dominant art history. The importance of her works lies in the fact that she has also pointed out the problems of the feminist approach in art history. The concept of feminist interventions in the histories of art, which she has introduced and promoted in her texts and which is seen as a central concept of her work, significantly contributed to the articulation of gender issues in art history. One of the objectives of this paper is to describe these tendencies in a broader context, including also significant changes in the society and the emergence of other interpretative methods in art history during this period, as well as to describe the reception of her theories in Serbia.