![]() ![]() 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. 1970 marked the 50th anniversary of the passing of the 19th amendment. ![]() There was a limitation, a barrier of a very scarce repertoire even among scholars and people who worked directly with art. Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists was written during a watershed year for the Women’s Liberation movement. 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?”. ![]()
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