Linda Nochlin (1931–2017) was one of the most pioneering and provocative art historians of our time. In 1971 she published her groundbreaking article, ‘Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?’, an impassioned feminist rallying cry that called traditional art historical practices into question and led to a major revision of the discipline.
Women Artists: The Linda Nochlin Reader brings together thirty essential essays from throughout Nochlin’s career, including two written specially for this collection. The book opens with an interview with Nochlin, in which she looks back on her life’s work and reflects on the position of women artists today. Her major thematic texts, such as ‘Women Artists After the French Revolution’ and ‘Starting from Scratch: The Beginnings of Feminist Art History’ appear alongside the landmark 1971 essay and its rejoinder, ‘“Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?”: Thirty Years After.’ Also included are entries focusing on a selection of major women artists, such as Mary Cassatt, Louise Bourgeois, Cecily Brown, Kiki Smith, Miwa Yanagi and Sophie Calle, as well as
concise biographies of all the artists discussed in the book and a complete bibliography of Nochlin’s publications. (Verlagstext)
Inhaltsverzeichnis:
-- Preface
-- A Dialogue with Linda Nochlin, the Maverick She
-- 1970s
1 Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?
2 Miriam Schapiro: Recent Work
3 Some Women Realists
4 Women Artists after the French Revolution
-- 1980s
5 Florine Steltheimer: Rococo Subversive
6 Nancy Graves: The Subversiveness of Sculpture
7 Morisot's Wet Nurse: The Construction of Work and Leisure in lmpressionist Painting
8 Zuka's French Revolution: A Woman's Place is Public Space
-- 1990s
9 Pornography as a Decorative Art: Joyce Kozloff's Patterns of Desire
10 Starting from Scratch: The Beginnings of Feminist Art History
11 Mary Cassatt's Modernity
12 Sylvia Sleigh: Portraits of Women Artists and Writers
13 Deborah Kass: Portrait of the Artist as an Appropriator
-- 2000s
14 Jenny Saville: Floating in Gender Nirvana
15 Mary Frank: Encounters
16 Seeing Beneath the Surface (Kathleen Gilje)
17 A Rage to Paint: Joan Mitchell and the Issue of Femininity
18 Sam Taylor-Wood: When the Stars Weep
19 Alice Neel
20 Unholy Postures: Kiki Smith and the Body
21 Sarah Lucas: God is Dad
22 ''Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?" Thirty Years After
23 Women Artists Then and Now: Painting, Sculpture, and the Image of the Self
24 Cecily Brown: The Erotics of Touch
25 Existence and Beading: The Work of Liza Lou
26 Black, White, and Uncanny: Miwa Yanagi's Fairy Tale
27 Old-Age Style: Late Louise Bourgeois
-- 2010s
28 Sophie Calle: Word, Image and the End of Ekphrasis
29 Ellen Altfest: A New, New Realism
30 Natalie Frank: The Dark Side of the Fairy Tale
-- Bibliography: Linda Nochlin
-- Artists' Biographies
-- Acknowledgments
-- Picture Credits
-- Index