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

凯特·米莱(1934-2017)被广泛认为是美国第二波女权主义的关键基础人物。1970年，在她的女权主义文学批评著作《性政治》出版后，米利特成为了一名国际知名的公共知识分子。尽管在文学上声名鹊起，但米利特首先认为自己是一名艺术家，并认为她的作品--主要关注1970年以来对女同性恋性行为和关系的描绘--必须说出大量的内容。对米利特这样的做法持续的学术沉默，揭示了凯瑟琳·洛德所说的女同性恋形象在艺术史上的“本体论上的不可能性”。我的研究项目旨在找到纠正学科内女同性恋史边缘化的方法，使用实验方法让米利特的作品-以及像她这样的艺术家的作品-说话。

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.