![]() Artemisia Gentileschi, Louise Bourgeois, Mary Cassatt, Frida Kahlo, Georgia O'Keeffe, Marina Abramović and a maximum of five others were just what people could list. Linda Nochlin (née Weinberg Janu October 29, 2017) was an American art historian, Lila Acheson Wallace Professor Emerita of Modern Art at New York University Institute of Fine Arts, and writer. There was a limitation, a barrier of a very scarce repertoire even among scholars and people who worked directly with art. In her studies, Nochlin realized that, although people were able to name some female artists who produced works considered canonical throughout history, the ones cited were always the same. ![]() Instead, the author sought to dismantle what an almost essentially male and white group had constructed as a “concept” to establish what made an artist “great”. ![]() It's been 50 years since this provocative and rather shocking headline graced the pages of the 1971 issue of ARTnews magazine, announcing a text from the art historian Linda Nochlin□□ In the same year, it was published in a book, but being the subtitle of Art and Sexual Politics□□ The essay had previously been published in the book Woman in sexist society studies in power and powerlessness, which compiled texts by 30 women writers and scholars on sexism.Ĭonsidered quite controversial at the time, its purpose was not really to answer the question on the cover, as many might imagine. ![]() ![]() “Why were there no great female artists?”. Image Credit: Linda Nochlin A year after publishing her influential 1971 essay in ARTnews, Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists, Linda Nochlin slipped a surprise into the slides. ![]()
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