Linda Nochlin
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Professor and art historian Linda Nochlin is a leader in feminist art history studies. In 1971, the magazine ArtNews published an essay whose title posed a question that would spearhead an entirely new branch of art history. The essay was called "Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?" As the title suggests, the essay explores possible reasons that there have been no women who have achieved the highest level of artistic accomplishment, like that achieved by male 'geniuses' such as Michaelangelo. Nochlin argues that restrictions on educating women at art academies, as well as general social expectations against women seriously pursuing art served to systematically preclude any emergence of great women artists.
Nochlin has also been involved in publishing other essays and books including Representing Women; Women, Art, and Power: And Other Essays; The Politics of Vision: Essays on Nineteenth-Century Art and Society; and Women in the 19th Century: Categories and Contradictions.
Nochlin received her PhD from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University in 1963. Besides feminist art history, she is best known for her work on Realism and specifically on Courbet.
After working in the art history departments at Yale University, the City College of New York (with Rosalind Krauss), and Vassar College, Nochlin took a position at the Institute of Fine Arts, where she continues to teach.[1]
[edit] Further reading
Nochlin, Linda. "Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?" ARTnews Jan. 1971: 22-39, 67-71.
Nochlin, Linda. "Memoirs of an Ad Hoc Art Historian." Representing Women (London: Thames, 1999): 6-33.
[edit] Notes
- ^ Pierce, Richard (2007-01-29). CAA Names Linda Nochlin 2007 Distinguished Scholar. NYU Today. Retrieved on 2007-02-12.
