Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? - Linda Nochlin Hardback A GUARDIAN AND EVENING STANDARD

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Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? - Linda Nochlin Hardback A GUARDIAN AND EVENING STANDARDLinda Nochlin's 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 unparalleled insight and startling wit, Nochlin laid bare