Art history and gender

The relationship between gender and cultural practice is an important topic in cultural studies research. This volume provides an introduction to the themes that have shaped art historical gender studies: body and representation, creativity and genius, ethnicity and gender, gender and medium. The methods and questions from the past thirty years form the basis for a contemporary continuation. It serves as an introduction to the central concepts of art historical gender studies.

Contents include: Gender as a critical category (Anja Zimmermann, Hamburg) - The art historical canon (Nanette Salomon, New York) - Gay and lesbian studies (Whitney Davis, Berkeley) - Body and body theories (Sigrid Schade, Zurich) - Jan van Eyck: Autonomization of the nude and gender difference (Daniela Hammer-Tugendhat, Vienna) - Critique of representation (Silke Wenk, Bremen) - On the relationship between artistic freedom and sexual integrity (Renate Berger, Berlin) - The myth of the "whole body" (Sigrid Schade, Zurich) - Institution and gender (Carola Muysers, Cottbus) - The training of women as artists (Miriam Shapiro, New York) - Technique, material, gender (Silke Tammen, Giessen) - Building blocks for a definition of female "hobby art" (Lucy Lippard, New York) - Creativity and genius (Maike Christadler, Tübingen) - Configurations of masculinity and authority (Irit Rogoff, London) - Differences: Ethnicity and gender (Birgit Haehnel, Vienna) - The triple denial of women artists of color (Adrian Piper, New York) - Gender and medium (Hildegard Frübis, Berlin).