Griselda Pollock
The 2020 Holberg Prize has been awarded to art historian Griselda Pollock. She joins Front Row to discuss why art history is too important a subject to be left to art historians.
The Holberg Prize is awarded annually to a scholar who has made outstanding contributions to research in the arts and humanities, social sciences, law or theology. This year the 6 million Norwegian kroner prize (approximately £500,000) has been awarded to the British-Canadian art historian Professor Griselda Pollock who the judges described as “the foremost feminist art historian working in the world today”.
In the month when she would have travelled to Norway to receive the prize, she joins Front Row to discuss why art history is too important a subject to be left to art historians.
Presenter: Katie Popperwell
Producer: Ekene Akalawu
Studio Managers: Phil Booth and Mike Smith
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Image shows cover of Old Mistresses; Women, Art and Ideology, by Rozsika Parker and Griselda Pollock. Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981 Cover with work by Marisol White Dreams 1968
Main image photo credit: Antony Bryant
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