Table of Contents

Introduction by Catherine Grant • 1.Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? • 2.“Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?” Thirty Years After • Notes • Further Reading

Promotional Information

The 50th anniversary edition of the first major work of feminist art history, published together with the author's reflections three decades on

About the Author

Linda Nochlin (1931-2017), described in the Guardian as 'a trailblazer to the end', was Lila Acheson Wallace Professor Emerita of Modern Art at the New York University Institute of the Fine Arts. She wrote extensively on issues of gender in art history and on 19th-century Realism. Her numerous publications include Women, Art and Power; Representing Women; Courbet and Misère.

Reviews

Brilliant ... Nochlin, when you agree with her and when you don't, is unputdownable
*Jackie Wullschlager, Financial Times*

Linda Nochlin's brilliant essay burst upon us in 1971, illuminating the half-empty landscape of art history and opening the way for new feminist thinking about women, art and society. Even as we now know that there have been many great women artists past and present, we still need Linda's sharp analysis of social institutions, prejudice and systemic failure to foster the creativity of all women and learn from their unique and diverse perspectives
*Professor Griselda Pollock (University of Leeds), Laureate of the Holberg Prize for Arts and Humanities 2020*

Passionate and provocative ... helped to shatter the illusion that art history is universal and, in doing so, changed the field forever ... We need to question conventional ways of thinking, writing, seeing, and challenge contradictions. These bold and candid essays provide readers with the tools to do so
*The Art Newspaper*

Ground-breaking, written with wit and in a conversational style rarely seen in academic studies
*ArtReview*

As relevant as ever on the burning issues of gender, class and exclusion
*Elephant*