Linda Nochlin is one of the most prolific, intellectually accessible and innovative art historians of our time. Since the publication of her seminal 1971 essay Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?, she has continued to assess the social and institutional structures that have influenced the wo[...]
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.[...]
A leading critic and historian of nineteenth-century art and society explores in nine essays the interaction of art, society, ideas, and politics. .[...]
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.[...]
By the end of the 18th century a sense of anxiety and crisis began to preoccupy European writers and artists in theor relationship to the past, from antiquity on, which constituted the European intellectual tradition. The grandness of that past could no longer fit into the frame of the present. Arti[...]
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 [...]
Since its first publication in 1994, this book has established itself as the most popular and highly regarded textbook in the field. It embraces many aspects of the so-called new art history while at the same time emphasizing the remarkable vitality, salience, and subversiveness of the era s best ar[...]
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.[...]