Maitresses d'autrefois

<p>Originally published in English in 1981 as <i>Old Mistresses. Women, Art, and Ideology</i> and translated here into French for the first time under the title <i>Ma¿esses d¿autrefois: Femmes, art et id¿ogie</i>, this ninth volume of the <i>Lectures maison rouge</i> series is not a history of women¿s art. Rather, this seminal book by Rozsika Parker and Griselda Pollock is far more radical and emancipatory and, indeed, still relevant today.<br>It combines in-depth case studies¿from Sofonisba Anguissola, ¿isabeth Vig¿Le Brun and Berthe Morisot to Meret Oppenheim, Eva Hesse and Mary Kelly¿with analyses of the structures of artistic production and dynamic developments on the oriented way in which the discipline ¿art history¿ has been forged, socially and symbolically. Spanning art history from Antiquity and the Middle Ages to modern art and the feminist practices of the 1970s, Parker and Pollock offer a salutary investigation to all those who not only want to add feminine names to art his