With an emphasis on methodological shifts, this book adds a distinctive voice to the recent outpouring of publications on Dutch genre painting. As a focused historiography of some of the changes that continue to alter the scholarship of Netherlandish art, Shifting Priorities demonstrates how intellectually lively and contested our terrain remains.
Historians of Netherlandish Art Book Reviews ... Read moreThis book will take a place at the forefront of studies of Dutch genre painting and of feminist art history and visual culture, setting new paradigms for these fields. Shifting Priorities is a sophisticated work of sustained originality, sharp intelligence, and sure judgments of how paintings operated as a negotiation of social discourses, historical shifts, and relations of both class and gender.
Griselda Pollock
University of Leeds
This book of essays will remain an important and lasting contribution, both for students of Dutch art and for students of methodology.
Seventeenth-Century News Shifting Priorities: Gender and Genre in Seventeeth-Century Dutch Painting is a fresh contribution to the numerous studies - articles, exhibition catalogues and books - that have appeared in the last few decades on the subject of Dutch genre imagery It is to be hoped that her contribution will demonstrate the enlightening possibilities for future scholarship in the field and will bring its feminist contributions into the wider arena of general art history. - Women's Art Journal Show Less