'This image has to speak volumes': Kate Millett's Visual Art.

凯特·米勒（Kate Millet，1934-2017）被公认为美国第二波女权主义的重要奠基人。1970年，米利特出版了她的女性主义文学批评著作《性政治》，成为国际知名的公共知识分子。尽管她的文学名声，米利特认为自己首先是一个艺术家，并认为这是必要的，她的工作，主要集中在女同性恋性行为和关系c.1970起，“说话卷”。持续的学术沉默的做法，如米利特的揭示了凯瑟琳勋爵所指的“本体论的不可能性”的数字的女同性恋在艺术史上。我的研究项目的目的是找到纠正的边缘化的女同性恋历史的学科内使用实验方法，让米利特的工作和那些像她一样的艺术家说话的方式。

Kate Millet (1934-2017) is widely acknowledged as a key foundational figure of US-based second-wave feminism. Upon publication in 1970 of her book of feminist literary criticism, Sexual Politics, Millett became an internationally-known public intellectual. Despite her literary fame, Millett considered herself an artist first-and-foremost, and felt it was imperative that her work, which mainly focused on depictions of lesbian sexuality and relationships c.1970 onwards, 'speak volumes'. The ongoing scholarly silence around practices like Millett's reveals what Catherine Lord has referred to as the 'ontological impossibility' of the figure of the lesbian in the history of art. My research project aims to find ways of redressing the marginalization of lesbian histories within the discipline using experimental methodologies to allow Millett's work-and those by artists like her-to speak.