A short presentation on the methodologies and written works of Linda Nochlin, Karl Whittington, and Laura Mulvey regarding gender, sexuality, and queer art historical methods. See GoPokes.org for more information.

2. Linda Nochlin
 Lila Acheson Wallace Professor of
Modern Art at the IFA
 Received her doctorate in 1963,
also from the IFA
 Recipient of a Guggenheim
Fellowship, an NEH Fellowship,
and an honorary doctorate from
Harvard
 Research interests include: 19th
and 20th c. painting and
sculpture, contemporary art and
theory, and women and art

3. Why Have There Been
No Great Women Artists
 Originally published in Art News in January of 1971.
 Nochlin asks a very simple question… “why have there
been no great women artists?”
 She explores this question through the use of Feminist
and Marxist Methodologies.
 She also uses the writings of Mills, and Piagetian Theory,
to support her argument, along with a plethora of visual
and historical examples and counterexamples, ultimately
focusing on the life of Rosa Bonheur.

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5. Karl
Whittington
 Assistant Professor of the
History of Art at The Ohio State
University
 Received his doctorate from UC-
Berkeley
 Research interests include:
medieval art and architecture,
particularly in Europe from the
11th through 14th centuries.
 His current research explores the
intersection of science, sex, and
spirituality in medieval maps,
drawings, and diagrams.

6. Queer
 Published last year (2012) in Studies in Iconography, vol 33.
 Whittington asserts that “… queer theory is now an established
field of study and the deconstructionist methodology that
spawned it is frequently used by medieval art historians. So
why does the term remain largely absent within our field?”
 He uses a lengthy literary review to challenge the supposition
surrounding the term queer. He relies on David Halperin’s use
of non-normative.
 He also uses cartographic works by the 14th c. priest Opicinus
de Canistris for comparative, iconographic, and formal analysis
illustrating how queer methodology can be applied to the
study of medieval art history.

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8. Laura Mulvey
 Professor of Film Theory at
Birkbeck – University of London
 Received her bachelors from St.
Hilda’s College - Oxford
 Recipient of three honorary
doctorates
 Research interests include:
rethinking feminist film theory,
the aesthetics of stillness in the
moving image, and the 'new
woman' and the cinema in the
late 1920s

9. Visual Pleasure and
Narrative Cinema
 Originally published in Screen in 1975. Written 1972.
 Mulvey states, “This article will discuss the interweaving of
that erotic pleasure in film, its meaning, and in particular the
central place of the image of woman.”
 She also blatantly states that she will be using Psychoanalytical
Methodology as the theoretical framework for her argument,
but there is significant Feminist Theory used, too.
 She uses comparative and formal analysis of films to further
illustrate her point, and uses a series of key terms including:
scopophilia, the gaze, phallocentric, and castration.

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