Griselda Pollock
RESEARCH
RESEARCH
Griselda Pollock's research and writing entangle feminist, social-historical, postcolonial, queer and international studies of the visual arts cinema and related cultural practices including the exhibition and curatorial practice. ​​
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She combines historical materialist, post-structuralist, psychoanalytical and wide-ranging feminist theories to develop concepts for the interrelations and the differences that concepts such as class, race, gender, sexual difference, sexuality and geopolitical situatedness seek to analyse and transform.
The social relations of production and the psychic formations of subjectivity operate on distinct registers but intersect as they play out across cultural forms and practices that are based in materialist conditions and actively produce subjective conditions in a very complex and dialectical interaction. These need to be constantly questioned from positions of exclusion, difference and agonistic struggle.
Her practice, as an art historian, cultural analyst and feminist theorist is, therefore, transdisciplinary, self-challenging and critical. It is rarely monographical.
Her research and writing are concept-led. Her aim is to analyse how artworks work (in the semiotic, ideological and psychoanalytical modes) and how we might read what Bracha L Ettinger terms ‘artworking’ (Ettinger 2000)
As part of the Getty Research Project on Art Historians Griselda Pollock was interviewed in 1997. Titled The Ambivalence of Pleasure this online text offers an insight into the political and theoretical contexts for the emergence of her work in Britain since the 1970s and for the methodologies she developed for her research and writing.
https://archive.org/details/ambivalenceofple00poll/page/n7/mode/2up)
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​​​​​Theoretically-enriched, Griselda Pollock’s research and writing is a form of transdisciplinary cultural analysis, even as it attends to the specificities of each artistic or cultural practice ranging across the visual arts, cinema and film, media and popular cultural forms, literature and philosophy.
