(Ebook) Old Mistresses: Women, Art and Ideology by Rozsika Parker, Griselda Pollock ISBN 9781780764047, 9780857722263, 1780764049, 0857722263

(Ebook) Old Mistresses: Women, Art and Ideology by Rozsika Parker, Griselda Pollock ISBN 9781780764047, 9780857722263, 1780764049, 0857722263

With a new Preface by Griselda Pollock, this new edition of a truly groundbreaking book offers a radical challenge to a women-free Art History. Parker and Pollock's critique of Art History's sexism leads to expanded, inclusive readings of the art of the past. They demonstrate how the changing historical social realities of gender relations and women artists' translation of gendered conditions into their works provide keys to novel understandings of why we might study the art of the past. They go further to show how such knowledge enables us to understand art by contemporary artists who are women and can contribute to the changing self-perception and creative work of artists today.