Research Catalog

Title

Woman in art : Helen Rosenau's 'little book' of 1944 / Griselda Pollock.

Publication

• London : Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2023.
• ©2023

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Details

Additional Authors

• Pollock, Griselda
• Rosenau, Helen
• Rifkin, Adrian
• Dickson, Rachel

Description

xi, 388 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour); 26 cm

Summary

Griselda Pollock reintroduces an important feminist forerunner in this new, full-colour setting of Helen Rosenau's 1944 book Woman in Art. Helen Rosenau (1900-1984) was part of the influential migration of European Jewish intellectuals who fled to Britain and the United States during the 1930s, bringing with them exciting innovations in art history's methods. Only Rosenau, however, centred gender in her analysis. The result--her book Woman in Art: From Type to Personality--is a feminist art-historical project, as relevant today as when it was first published in 1944, in which Rosenau drew on contemporary discussions of gender in anthropology, philosophy, sociology, law, theology, history, and literature. In this new volume, ahead of the eightieth anniversary of its original publication, Rosenau's erudite and accessible text is prefaced with a personal memoir by Adrian Rifkin, who was once her student, new research into the refugee experience by Rachel Dickson, and a portrait of Rosenau as feminist intellectual by Griselda Pollock. In conversation with this new setting of the original text, richly illustrated with colour images, Pollock offers eye-opening new readings of key aspects of Rosenau's methods, concepts, arguments, and interpretations of famous artworks, establishing the place of Rosenau's "little book of 1944" in the historiographies of both feminist thought and cutting-edge art history across two centuries.

Alternative Title

Helen Rosenau's 'little book' of 1944

Subject

• Women in art
• Women artists
• Feminism and art
• Feminism

Note

• Including a new colour edition of Woman in art : from type to personality by Helen Rosenau; with a personal memoir by Adrian Rifkin and biographical essay on Helen Rosenau by Rachel Dickson.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-367) and index.

Contents

Part 1: Helen Rosenau: Art Historian and Feminist between Two Worlds -- 1. Introduction: Missing Feminist Memory: Helen Rosenau, Art Historian (1900-1984) - 2. Some Things I Never Knew: The Rehabilitation of Dr Helen Rosenau and Her Work in England after 1933 - 3. Thought in a 'Woman's Shape': Writing as a Portrait of the Writer -- Part 2: Woman in Art: From Type to Personality -- Part 3: Reading Helen Rosenau's 'Little Book' Now: Seven Essays on Woman in Art - Essay 1. The Cover and the Title - Essay 2. The Foreword and the Preface - Essay 3. The Plates and the Method - Essay 4. The Process and its Feminist Context - Essay 5. The Missing Bibliography - Essay 6. Situated Readings - Essay 7. Women's time, Feminism's Time, Art's Time, Jewish Time

Call Number

JQF 24-814

ISBN

• 9781913107413
• 1913107418

OCLC

1402278291

Title

Woman in art : Helen Rosenau's 'little book' of 1944 / Griselda Pollock.

Publisher

London : Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2023.

Copyright Date

©2023

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-367) and index.

Added Author

Pollock, Griselda, author.

Rosenau, Helen. Woman in art.

Rifkin, Adrian, writer of supplementary textual content.

Dickson, Rachel, writer of supplementary textual content.

Research Call Number

JQF 24-814