The Great Goddess
Essay Griselda Pollock
As one of the most influential voices in feminist art history, Holberg Prize-winner Griselda Pollock lends her insights to our Pretty Brillian issue on Goddesses. Pollock has transformed the art historical canon and served as ‘a beacon for generations of art and cultural historians’. For See All This, she explores how we can use the term ‘goddess’ to examine the long history of human imagination.
Fig 1.
Minoan Snake Goddess (goddess of nature and fertility), New-Palace period (1600 BCE), Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete
This essay is included in See All This #38. Order a copy here.
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