This collection of seven essays on women artists and women in art history, presented with illustrations, brings together the work of almost 20 years of scholarship and speculation by Linda Nochlin.[...]

Setting Realism in its social and historical context, the author discusses the crucial paradox posed by Realist works of art - notably in the revolutionary paintings of Courbet, the works of Manet, Degas and Monet, of the Pre-Raphaelites and other English, American, German and Italian Realists.[...]

Linda Nochlin has devoted herself to a lifelong study of Gustave Courbet, arguably the most radical of all 19th-century painters and one of the fathers of modern art. Now, in this landmark book, every aspect of his oeuvre comes under Nochlin's scrutiny from his vast realist depictions of provincial [...]

Joan Mitchell (1926-1992) was one of the few women among the first-rank Abstract Expressionist painters. She outpaced all but a handful of her male mentors and counterparts, while only Lee Krasner stands as a possible rival among her female counterparts. Although well regarded by critics, fellow art[...]

I følge forfatteren er kunsten uløselig knyttet til samfunnsstrukturen, og kvinners kunst må forstås i lys av institusjonelle forhold.[...]