Monday, October 30, 2017

Linda Nochlin, The Trailblazing Feminist Art Historian Whose 1971 Essay Changed The Discipline, Has Died At 86

The article "Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?" - which argued quite clearly against the canon as well as against male-dominated notions of greatness - "would have been enough to secure her place as one of art history’s most important writers, but over the course of her six-decade career, she also made formidable contributions to the study of Realism and Gustav Courbet, Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, and numerous contemporary artists."



Article source here:Arts Journal

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