Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?: 50th anniversary edition

The fiftieth anniversary edition of the essay that is now recognized as the first major work of feminist art theory-published together with author Linda Nochlin's reflections three decades later.

Many scholars have called Linda Nochlin's seminal essay on women artists the first real attempt at a feminist history of art. In her revolutionary essay, Nochlin refused to answer the question of why there had been no "great women artists" on its own corrupted terms, and instead, she dismantled the ...