Griselda Pollock

Griselda Pollock is an art historian specializing in feminist and Jewish studies in art history and contemporary art known for the classic Old Mistresses: Women, Art and Ideology co-authored with Rozsika Parker (1981) and the recent Charlotte Salomon in the Theatre of Memory (Yale, 2019). In her latest book, she reintroduces and reframes Woman in Art: From Type to Personality (1944) — Jewish, feminist art historian Helen Rosenau’s radical reading of the entire history of art up to modernism through the lens of the social, cultural and symbolic meanings attributed in art and thought to ‘woman’.