Professor of the Social and Critical Histories of Art

Griselda Pollock

BA Oxon, MA, PhD London

Publications and Papers, Research Profile

Professor of Social and Critical Histories of Art

Director, Centre for Cultural Analysis, Theory and History
www.leeds.ac.uk/ahrccath/ and www.leeds.ac.uk/cath/

Room 2.02 Old Mining Building
School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies
0113 343 5267
g.f.s.pollock@leeds.ac.uk

Griselda Pollock was born in South Africa in 1949 and grew up in both French and English Canada. Coming to Britain in her teens she studied Modern History at Oxford University (1967-1970) and History of European Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art (1970-72) and she was awarded her doctorate in 1980 for a study of Vincent Van Gogh and Dutch Art: A reading of his notions of the modern.  After teaching at Reading and Manchester universities, she came to Leeds in 1977 as Lecturer in History of Art and Film and was appointed to a Personal Chair in Social and Critical Histories of Art in 1990.
 In 2001 she became Director of Centre for Cultural Analysis, Theory and History see www.leeds,.ac.uk/cath/

For the academic year 2007-2008 Griselda Pollock is Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Cambridge
She will be giving a series of lectures on Thursdays at 5.00 between 24 Jaunary and 14 March 2008

After-images/After-affects.
Trauma and Aesthetic Inscription in the Virtual Feminist Museum

I Sounds of Subjectivity

1. Gasping at Violence: The Body’s Breath in Bernini’s Daphne and Apollo
2. Invocation in Sculpture: Louise Bourgeois’ Maman
3. Gazing from the Abyss: Eurydice’s Silent Question
4. Renavigating Africa:  Silence and Sound in the Gaze of Alfredo Jaar

II Memorial Bodies

5. Too Early and Too Late: Melting Solids in the sculpture of Alina Szapznikow
6. Fictions of Fact: Memory in Transit in Vera Frenkel’s Installations
7. Suitcases and Mothers:  Chantal Akermann’s Cinematic Memory–Work in the shadow of Charlotte Salomon
8.  Aesthetics and Catastrophe: Some Psychoanalytical Reflections

Supervision is offered in all areas of international, post-colonial feminist studies in the visual arts, social histories of nineteenth and twentieth century art, modern Jewish studies in the visual arts, psychoanalysis and aesthetics, studies in trauma, catastrophe and cultural memory

Further Information

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Tel

+44 (0)113 343 5267

Fax

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Email

g.f.s.pollock@leeds.ac.uk

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