Representing Women

by Linda Nochlin

Overview

In this republication, revisit the late Linda Nochlin’s pioneering writings on the representation of women in art.

Women—as warriors, workers, mothers, lovers—haunt nineteenth and twentieth-century Western painting. This republication of Representing Women brings together the late Linda Nochlin’s most important and pioneering writings on the representation of women in art as she considers works by Jean-Francois Millet, Eugene Delacroix, Gustave Courbet, Edgar Degas, Georges Seurat, Mary Cassatt, and Kathe Kollwitz, among many others. In a riveting, partly autobiographical introduction, Nochlin argues for the honest virtues of an art history that rejects methodological presuppositions and for art historians to investigate the work before their eyes while focusing on its subject matter, informed by a sensitivity to its feminist spirit.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780500294758
Publisher:	Thames & Hudson
Publication date:	05/21/2019
Edition description:	Illustrate
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Linda Nochlin was the Lila Acheson Wallace professor of modern art emerita at New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts. Her publications include The Body in Pieces: The Fragment as a Metaphor of Modernity; Women, Art and Power and Other Essays; The Politics of Vision: Essays on Nineteenth-Century Art and Society; Courbet; Misère: The Visual Representation of Misery in the 19th Century; and Women Artists: The Linda Nochlin Reader. Her essay “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?” is considered one of the most in influential texts in modern art history.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Memoirs of an Ad Hoc Art Historian 6

Chapter 1 The Myth of the Woman Warrior 34

Chapter 2 Gericault: The Absence of Women 58

Chapter 3 The Image of the Working Woman 80

Chapter 4 Courbet's Real Allegory: Rereading The Painter's Studio 106

Chapter 5 A House is Not a Home: Degas and the Subversion of the Family 152

Chapter 6 Mary Cassatt's Modernity 180

Chapter 7 Body Politics: Seurat's Poseuses 216

Notes and Sources 239

List of Illustrations 262

Index 268

Editorial Reviews

A particular sensibility, not a cumulative argument, loops the pieces in this book together, a perspective which combines erudition, ardor and hererodox opinion....Nochlin, with her sharp questions and peremptory demands that painters of modern life paint modern life in all its grand unease, gives the paintings a jolt.
— London Review of Books

Christine Stansell

While reading this stunning example of intellectual acumen, it's difficult not to feel as enriched and liberated by art as the fledgling Nochlin of thirty years ago, whose contagious passion still shines through today.
—ForeWord

Millard