Linda Nochlin

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Linda Nochlin (born January 30, 1931 in New York as Linda Weinberg ; † October 29, 2017 ) was an American art historian whose essay Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? 1971 laid the foundation for feminist art historiography .

life and work

Nochlin grew up as an only child in a wealthy, intellectual Jewish family in Brooklyn . She studied at the women's college in Vassar , where she obtained a BA in philosophy in 1951 with a minor in Greek and art history. She continued her studies at Columbia University in New York, where she earned an MA in 17th century English literary history in 1952 . She then worked as a lecturer at Vassar College and later married. From 1958 to 1959 she spent a year as a Fulbright scholar in Paris. In 1963 she received her PhD in art history from the Institute of Fine Arts (IFA) at New York University with a thesis on Gustave Courbet . In 1969 she had a daughter and gave the first lecture entitled Women and Art at Vassar College.

She taught as Professor of Art History and Humanities at Yale University , later she was Distinguished Professor of Art History at the Graduate Center of CUNY and Mary Conover Mellon Professor of Art History at Vassar College. In 1992 she was appointed Professor of Fine Arts at the Institute of Fine Arts, and since 1993 she has held the Lila Acheson Wallace Chair of Art History at the Institute of Fine Arts.

With her 1971 essay published Why have there been no great women artists ( Why there has been no significant artists? ), She founded the feminist approach in art history with much. In addition to her contributions to feminist art history and women in art , Nochlin was best known for her work on realism , especially Courbet.

Linda Nochlin died of cancer at the age of 86.

Awards

  • 1977: Frank Jewett Mather Prize for Critical Writing , awarded by the College Art Association
  • 1984: Guggenheim Fellowship
  • 1992: Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1997: National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship
  • 1997: Scholar of the Year , awarded by the New York State Council on the Humanities
  • 1999: Resident Fellow at the Rockefeller Study and Conference Center , Bellagio
  • 2004: Member of the American Philosophical Society
  • 2006: Clark Prizes for Excellence in Art Writing
  • Multiple honorary doctorates, including from Harvard University

Publications (selection)

  • Courbet . Thames and Hudson, New York 2007. ISBN 0-500-28676-0 .
  • Aruna D'Souza and Linda Nochlin (Eds.): Self and History: Essay in Honor of Linda Nochlin . Thames & Hudson, New York 2001. ISBN 0-500-28250-1 . (Fourteen essays on lectures originally given at a conference in 2001 at Princeton University in honor of Nochlin.)
  • Representing Women . Thames and Hudson, New York 1999. ISBN 0-500-28098-3 .
  • The Body in Pieces - the Fragment as a Metaphor of Modernity . Thames and Hudson, New York 1995. ISBN 0-500-28305-2 .
  • The Politics of Vision. Essays on Nineteenth-Century Art and Society. Harper & Row, New York 1989. ISBN 0-064-30187-7 .
  • Women, Art, and Power and Other Essays. Harper & Row, New York 1988. ISBN 0-064-30183-4 .
  • Realism - Style and Civilization. Penguin, Harmondsworth 1971. ISBN 0-140-13222-8 .
  • Realism and Tradition in Art, 1848–1900. Sources & Documents. Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs (NJ) 1966. ISBN 0-137-66584-9 .
  • Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? In ARTnews, January 1971: pp. 22-39, and pp. 67-71.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sarah Cascone: Remembering Feminist Art Historian Linda Nochlin, From Her Famous Essay to Her Liberation of Courbet's 'Origin of the World' , Artnet Worldwide, October 30, 2017; accessed on November 1, 2017.
  2. ↑ Linda Nochlin: Charles Homer Haskins Prize Lecture for 2007: A Life of Learning . ACLS Occasional Paper, No. 64. Available online (accessed April 14, 2008; PDF; 397 kB)
  3. ^ Moira Roth: Of Self and History: Exchanges with Linda Nochlin. In: Art Journal, Vol. 59 No. 3, September 22, 2000. Available online (Retrieved April 15, 2008)
  4. ↑ Women in Art. We had to reinvent art history. A conversation with Linda Nochlin, led by Julia Voss. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, April 11, 2008 available online (accessed April 14, 2008)
  5. ^ Roberta Smith : Linda Nochlin, Art Historian and Writer, Dies at 86 . In: New York Times , Nov. 3, 2017, page B14. (New York edition).
  6. ^ Guggenheim Foundation: 1984 US and Canadian Fellows . Available online ( Memento from May 1, 2001 in the Internet Archive ) (Retrieved April 14, 2008)
  7. ^ Bulletin of the American Academy Fall 2007: List of Active Members by Class . Section IV: 5 Visual and Performing Arts, Criticism and Practice (including Art, Architecture, Sculpture, Music, Theater, Film, Dance) - 204 members as of October 2007. Available online ( Memento from May 6, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) ( Retrieved April 14, 2008)
  8. ↑ Member History: Linda Nochlin. American Philosophical Society, accessed January 9, 2019 .
  9. ↑ The Clark Institute: Kobena Mercer, Linda Nochlin, and Calvin Tomkins Awarded Inaugural Clark Prize For Excellence In Arts Writing February 16, 2006. Available online ( Memento of May 13, 2006 on the Internet Archive ) (Retrieved April 14, 2008)
personal data
SURNAME Nochlin, Linda
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weinberg, Linda (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American feminist art historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH new York
DATE OF DEATH October 29, 2017