10 Facts About Griselda Pollock

Griselda Frances Sinclair Pollock was born on 11 March 1949 and is an art historian and cultural analyst of international, postcolonial feminist studies in visual arts and visual culture.

Since 1977, Griselda Pollock has been an influential scholar of modern art, avant-garde art, postmodern art, and contemporary art.

Griselda Pollock's is a major influence in feminist theory, feminist art history, and gender studies.

Griselda Pollock's is renowned for her innovative feminist approaches to art history which aim to deconstruct the lack of appreciation and importance of women in art as other than objects for the male gaze.

Griselda Pollock's initiative enabled long overdue exposure and appreciation needed for many female artists such as Mary Cassatt, Eva Hesse, and Charlotte Salomon.

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Griselda Pollock's received her doctorate in 1980 for a study of Vincent van Gogh and Dutch Art: A reading of his notions of the modern.

Griselda Pollock's was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Courtauld Institute in 2019, together with Daniella Luxembourg, and delivered the graduation speech.

Range of concepts developed by Griselda Pollock which serve to theorize and practice critical feminist interventions in art's histories are: old mistresses, vision and difference, avant-garde gambits, generations and geographies, differencing the canon and most recently, the virtual feminist museum.

Griselda Pollock is the founding director of the Centre for Cultural Analysis, Theory, and History at the University of Leeds.

In 2007, with Max Silverman, Griselda Pollock initiated the research project "Concentrationary Memories: The Politics of Representation", which explores the concept of an anxious and vigilant form of cultural memory analyzing the devastating effects of the totalitarian assault on the human condition and alert to the persistent not only of this perpetual threat but is invasion of popular culture.