Mujeres artistas. Ensayos de Linda Nochlin reúne treinta ensayos esenciales de la historiadora contemporánea más sagaz y provocadora publicados a lo largo de su carrera, entre los que se cuentan dos realizados específicamente para esta colección y una entrevista en la que repasa su trayectoria académica y reflexiona acerca del papel de la mujeres en el arte actual. Se trata pues de la ant…
Renowned art historian and pioneering feminist Linda Nochlin explores how, from the late 18th century, fragmented, mutilated and fetishized representations of the human body came to constitute a distinctively modern view of the world. Surprising, questioning, challenging, enriching: the Pocket Perspectives series celebrates writers and thinkers who have helped shape the conversation across the …
This illustrated, edited collection of essays brings together for the first time some of the pioneering art historian Linda Nochlins most important writings on modernism and modernity from across her six-decade career. Before the publication of her seminal tract on feminism in art, Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?, Nochlin had already firmly established herself as a major practitione…
A leading feminist art historian on the nude body, from impressionism to postmodernism. To some viewers, Renoir's Great Bathers is the very picture of female sensuality and beauty. To others, the sentimentalized, sexualized prettiness of the image embodies a whole tradition of masculine mastery and feminine display. Still others find in the bathers a feminine fantasy of bodily liberation. Juxt…
Linda Nochlins seminal essay on women artists is widely acknowledged as the first real attempt at a feminist history of art. Nochlin refused to handle the question of why there had been no great women artists on its own, corrupted, terms. Instead, she dismantled the very concept of greatness, unravelling the basic assumptions that had centred a male-coded genius in the study of art. With unpara…