Painting the Difference
Sex and Spectator in Modern Art
- Contents
- Review Quotes

Introductions and Acknowledgments
I. Looking Out, Looking In
1. The Picture Plane
2. Renoir
II. Fantasy and Imagination
3. Manet
4. Cézanne
III. Modern Feeling
5. Degas, Part One
6. Degas, Part Two
7. Morisot and Cassatt: "A Woman’s Painting"
IV. Public and Private
8. The Early Twentieth Century
9. Picasso
10. Matisse and Bonnard: "Painting the Emotions"
V. Painting the Unseen
11. Rothko
12. The Later Twentieth Century
Notes
Figure Credits
Index
“Painting the Difference complicates routine assumptions about the sexism of male artists and viewers, and raises useful questions about the history of seeing.”
“Taken together these chapters serve to demonstrate how careful looking can provide new insight into the making and meaning of iconic works. Conceptually challenging and rich in detail, this is an attractive volume with a generous number of illustrations, both in color and black and white, that help to support the author’s claims and argument.”
“The strength of [Harrison’s] approach is not to reduce the reality of sexual difference to an iconographic or socio-historic question, but to treat it on the very surface of painting, through the devices it invents and the complex games it suggests to the viewer.”
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