Saturday 27 June 2015

Women Artists: The Linda Nochlin Reader

Women Artists: The Linda Nochlin Reader

In 1971, Linda Nochlin published her groundbreaking article “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?,” a passionate and rigorous attack on nearly all the received ideas of her day. While it was necessary (she argued) to question “the unstated domination of white male subjectivity” that shaped the art historical canon, she found equally suspect the feminist impulse to resurrect forgotten or underappreciated women artists and elevate devalued “feminine” qualities.
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