Encounters in the Virtual Feminist Museum Time, Space and the Archive [Paperback]

Continuing her feminist reconceptualisation of the ways we can experience and study the visual arts, world renowned art historian and cultural analyst, Griselda Pollock proposes a series of new encounters through virtual exhibitions with art made by women over the twentieth century. Challenging the dominant museum models of art and history that have been so exclusive of women's artistic contributions to the twentieth century, the virtual feminist museum stages some of the complex relations between femininity, modernity and representation.

Griselda Pollock draws on the models of both Aby Warburg's Mnemosyne Atlasand Freud's private museum of antiquities as well as Ettinger's concept of subjectivity as encounter to propose a differencing journey through time, space and archive. Featuring studies of Canova 's Three Gracesand women artist's modernist reclamations of the female body, the book traverses the rupture of fascism and the Holocaust and ponders the significance of painting and drawing in their aftermath.

Artists featured include: Georgia O'Keeffe, Josephine Baker, Gluck, Charlotte Salomon, Bracha Ettinger and Christine Taylor Patten.

Acknowledgements  List of Illustrations  Part 1: The Afterlife of Images: Framing Fathers  1. What the Graces made me do... Time, Space and the Archive: Questions of Feminist Method  2. The Grace of Time: Narrativity, Sexuality and the Visual Encounter  3. The Objects Gaze in the Freudian Museum  Part 2: Femininity, Modernity and Representation  4.Visions of Sex ca 1920  Part 3: After Auschwitz: femininity and futurity  5. Jewish Space/Womens Time: Encounters with History in the Artworking of Charlotte Salomon 1941-1942  6. The Graces of Cal³k