Activists working in post-traumatic societies have resisted psychoanalytical terms because they fear that pathologizing individual suffering displaces the collective and political causes of traumatic violence. In a contrary direction, some…

In this text, art historian Griselda Pollock makes an intervention into the debate on whether the traditional canon of the Old Masters be rejected, replaced or reformed.What difference can a…

Psychoanalysis and the Image brings together an influential team of international scholars who demonstrate innovative ways to apply psychoanalytical resources in the study of international modern art and visual representation.

A selection of essays by Griselda Pollock, engaging areas of contemporary theory, especially sexed subjectivities, post-colonialism and Marxist-informed history. Penny Florence’s commentary places Pollock’s critique within the context of developments…

This title was first published in 2000. Work and the Image , published in two volumes, addresses a critical theme in contemporary social and cultural debates whose place in visual…

This work asks the fundamental questions about women;s position and the role of cultural myths in definitions of masculinity and femininity. The authors analyze the lives and workd of women…

In 1945, French political prisoners returning from the concentration camps of Germany coined the phrase ‘the concentrationary universe’ to describe the camps as a terrible political experiment in the destruction…

This book surveys works by Polish sculptor Alina Szapocznikow (1926-73) made between 1954 and 1973, from her early figurative sculptures to the awkward objects influenced by surrealism and pop art.