Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?

by Linda Nochlin ; with an introduction by Catherine Grant

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Editor(s)

Linda Nochlin

Publication, year

London : Thames & Hudson, 2021

Scope

112 Pages, illustrated, bl/w 18 cm.

ISBN

9780500023846

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In this revolutionary essay, Nochlin refused to answer the question of why there had been no “great women artists” on its own corrupted terms, and instead, she questions the acceptance of a white male viewpoint in art history. Future freedom, as she saw it, requires women to risk demolishing the art world’s institutions in order to rebuild them anew. This fiftieth anniversary edition of the essay is brought together with Nochlin’s reflections in “Thirty Years After.” Written in an era of thriving feminist theory, as well as queer theory, race, and postcolonial studies, “Thirty Years After” is a striking reflection on the emergence of a whole new canon.

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Person as subject

Joan Mitchell, Louise Bourgeois, Cindy Sherman, ... [et al.]

Location

Cabinet 30 - 6: Seksualiteit ; gender en ruimte

Remarks

Incl. Notes, Further reading