Women Artists: The Linda Nochlin Reader
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- $37.99
Publisher Description
The first comprehensive anthology of art historian Linda Nochlin’s work, including her landmark essays on the position and influence of women artists
Linda Nochlin is one of the most accessible, provocative, and innovative art historians of our time. In 1971 she published her essay “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?”—a dramatic feminist call-to-arms that called traditional art historical practices into question and led to a major revision of the discipline.
Women Artists brings together twenty-nine essential essays from throughout Nochlin’s career, making this the definitive anthology of her writing about women in art. Included are her major thematic texts “Women Artists After the French Revolution” and “Starting from Scratch: The Beginnings of Feminist Art History,” as well as the landmark essay and its rejoinder “‘Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?’ Thirty Years After.” These appear alongside monographic entries focusing on a selection of major women artists including Mary Cassatt, Louise Bourgeois, Cecily Brown, Kiki Smith, Miwa Yanagi, and Sophie Calle.
Women Artists also presents two new essays written specifically for this book and an interview with Nochlin investigating the position of women artists today.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Linda Nochlin has been a groundbreaking art critic and curator for decades, but this is the first collection devoted to her writing on the topic with which she is most associated: female artists. Opening with a new author interview, the text moves from 1971's groundbreaking "Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?" through many years' worth of catalogue essays, journal articles, and previously unpublished works. Nochlin is far from a one-note theorist; her concerns are varied and her thinking incisive. Among the topics she addresses are women painters after the French Revolution, subversive modes in Nancy Graves's sculptures, and the uncanny in contemporary photographer Miwa Yanagi's Fairy Tale series. She maintains a lucid and controlled style of prose, and even those essays with the strongest academic bent are highly readable. Readers will be delighted by this opportunity to watch Nochlin's ideas advance over the decades, including the revisiting of her earlier arguments in "Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists: 30 Years After." Nochlin's contributions have been crucial in rethinking art history and rejecting the narrow idea of a core female aesthetic. 247 illus.
