Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? author-rebekka-reuter unusual objets d’art

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Each of the featured artists pushes back the boundaries

with accounts of the sacred precincts

She makes us delight in them as works of art

Martin Gayford unpicks the creative threads and maverick personalities of interwoven lives from postwar Soho bohemia to the Swinging Sixties

Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? author-rebekka-reuter unusual objets d’artLinda Nochlins landmark essay heralded the dawn of a feminist history of art. It remains fundamental to any appreciation of art today. At once challenging and enlightening, it is never less than fully engaging, enticing the reader to question their own assumptions and to set off in new directions. Nochlin refuses to handle the question of why there have been no great women artists on its own, corrupted, terms. Instead, she dismantles the very concept