Alison Poe

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Book Reviews Editor, Woman's Art Journal
Alison Poe holds a Ph.D. in Art History from Rutgers. She specializes in late antique iconography and in the reception of ancient Greece and Rome within a variety of art-historical and pop-culture contexts, including children's literature and contemporary fashion.

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Giusto Traina

Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV)

Alejandra B Osorio

Wellesley College

Verity Platt

Cornell University

Mantha Zarmakoupi

University of Pennsylvania

Giulia Sissa

Ucla

Florin Curta

University of Florida

Olga Palagia

National & Kapodistrian University of Athens

Seth Bernard

University of Toronto

Andrew Wilson

University of Oxford

Lucy Grig

University of Edinburgh

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Introduction: Classical Reception, Gender Studies, and Art History

Receptions of Antiquity, Constructions of Gender in European Art, 1300-1600, 2015

Eva Hesse's _Laocoon_: Mitigated Antiquity and Specters in Space

by Alison Poe and Aliza Rachel Edelman

Woman's Art Journal, 2020

This paper applies classical reception theory to New York artist Eva Hesse's 1966 sculpture _Laoc... more This paper applies classical reception theory to New York artist Eva Hesse's 1966 sculpture _Laocoon_, now at the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Ohio. The authors argue that the nearly eleven-foot-tall empty lattice draped with limp ropes ("snakes," as Hesse explicitly termed them) invokes numerous specters: the iconic suffering male body in the Vatican _Laocoön and His Sons_; Hesse's own body creating the work, a capable agent in contrast to the doomed Trojan priest; and, in its continuity with the viewer's space, the viewer's body as well. With the _Laocoon_, Hesse inserted herself as a woman artist into the long patriarchal history of its Vatican namesake. The sculpture also put her in a complex conversation with the Minimalists -- mostly men -- whose works, exhibited in the Primary Structures show that same year, ostensibly (but problematically) rejected the anthropomorphic. With its draped ropes and spectral Laocoön, Hesse's work resonates strongly with German-born Venezuelan artist Gego's monumental, irregularly enfolding net piece _Reticulárea_, adapted for a temporary installation in New York in 1969.

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Review: The Dawn of Christian Art in Panel Paintings and Icons

Religion and the Arts, 2019

Review of _The Dawn of Christian Art in Panel Paintings and Icons_, by Mathews, Thomas F., with N... more

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Review: The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women across the Ancient World

Woman's Art Journal, 2015

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Narcissus in Children's Contexts: Didacticism and Scopophilia?

by Alison Poe and Aileen Hawkins

Classical Reception and Children's Literature: Greece, Rome, and Childhood Transformation, ed. Owen Hodkinson and Helen Lovatt, 2018

Marice Rose and Alison C. Poe, eds. Receptions of Antiquity, Constructions of Gender in European Art, 1300-1600 (Leiden: Brill, 2015)

by Marice Rose and Alison Poe

Download Introduction: "Classical Reception, Gender Studies, and Art History" here: https://works... more Download Introduction: "Classical Reception, Gender Studies, and Art History" here: https://works.bepress.com/marice_rose/12/ Receptions of Antiquity, Constructions of Gender in European Art, 1300-1600 presents scholarship in classical reception at its nexus with art history and gender studies. It considers the ways that artists, patrons, collectors, and viewers in late medieval and early modern Europe used ancient Greek and Roman art, texts, myths, and history to interact with and shape notions of gender. The essays examine Giotto's Arena Chapel frescoes, Michelangelo's Medici Chapel personifications, Giulio Romano's decoration of the Palazzo del Te, and other famous and lesser-known sculptures, paintings, engravings, book illustrations, and domestic objects as well as displays of ancient art. Visual responses to antiquity in this era, the volume demonstrates, bore a complex and significant relationship to the construction of, and challenges to, contemporary gender norms.