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The Grace of Time: narrativity, sexuality and a visual encounter in the Virtual Feminist Museum
Author(s) -
Pollock Griselda
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
art history
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.1
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 1467-8365
pISSN - 0141-6790
DOI - 10.1111/j.0141-6790.2003.02602007.x
Subject(s) - narrativity , human sexuality , art , ambivalence , unconscious mind , period (music) , visual arts , style (visual arts) , art history , sociology , aesthetics , psychoanalysis , gender studies , literature , narrative , psychology
This paper is part of a larger project exploring the concept of a Virtual Feminist Museum through the relations of time, space and the archive. Feminist analysis needs to take on the manner in which the history of images is conserved and presented through museum display and the curatorial mode that informs art‐historical study by master, image, style and period. To track the political unconscious of the image with all its ambivalence, the essay draws on Freudian aesthetics in the study of a photographic archive of fragments and details of Antonio Canova's Three Graces , which are set against a counter‐archive of work by artists who are women exploring bodies, sexuality and time.