Art HistoryEssay · 1971
Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?
Linda Nochlin
Nochlin refuses the question as posed and asks instead what institutions produce greatness. It is about academies and access, not overlooked names.
Why you should read this
Nochlin's essay reframed the question from individual talent to institutional access, becoming a founding text of feminist art history by asking what structures kept women out of academies, apprenticeships and patronage. Short, essay length, and still assigned as the field's starting point.
- Field
- Art History
- Form
- Non-fiction
- Published
- 1971
- Themes
- Art History
