Griselda pollock biography of christopher columbus

British art historian

Griselda Frances Sinclair Pollock^[1] (born 11 March 1949)^[2] is an art historian and cultural analyst of international, postcolonial feminist studies in visual arts and visual culture.

Since 1977, Pollock has been an influential scholar of modern art, avant-garde art, postmodern art, and contemporary art. She is a major influence in feminist theory, feministart history, and gender studies.^[3] She is renowned for her innovative feminist approaches to art history which aim to deconstruct the lack of appreciation and importance of women in art as other than objects for the male gaze.^[4]

Pollock conducts various studies that offer concrete historical analyses regarding the dynamics of the social structures that cause the sexual political environment within art history.

Through her contributions to feminism, Pollock has written various texts exclusively focused on women in order to intentionally drift