Griselda Pollock

Griselda Pollock

Biographical Information
Griselda Pollock is a feminist art historian and Professor of Social and Critical Histories of Art in the Department of Fine Art at the University of Leeds, England. She is director of the Center for Cultural Studies, the Center for Jewish Studies, and Graduate Studies and Research in Feminist Theory, History and Art at the University of Leeds. Pollock has written extensively on the problematic of the feminine in the fields of social history of art, cultural and psychoanalytic theory, and analysed with historical interests different artistic practices since the mid-19th century, culminating in contemporary art.

Pollock does not write out of a love for art. Works of art for her are not pleasurable ends but forms of evidence, signs and symptoms of (or, sometimes vehicles of resistance to) a sexist, racist and imperialist culture. As a self-described cultural analyst, she works to expose the masculinist ideology that she thinks canonical art and art history embody.