![]() ![]() There had to be more material, more stories. Only two days to review the highlights of women’s contributions to art in history. ![]() After spending an entire semester discussing the works of well-documented artists like Toulouse Lautrec, John Singer Sargent, and Picasso, the professor dedicated the last two classes to women artists, starting with primitive textiles and ending with the feminist movement of the 1960s and ‘70s and Linda Nochlin’s essay. In 1971, an art historian named Linda Nochlin wrote a landmark essay titled “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?” that launched an attack against limitations of women throughout history and spurred on the Feminist Art Movement of the ‘70s.Īlmost forty years after publication, this essay fell into my hands at the end of an art history 101 course at a university in Birmingham, Alabama. ![]()
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