Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?

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Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? (Why weren't there any major women artists?) Is an essay published in 1971 by the American art historian Linda Nochlin , which was groundbreaking for feminist art history . At the same time, the essay was the prelude to the scientific work that finally led to the exhibition “Women Artists: 1550 - 1950” in 1976, which was carried out together with Ann Sutherland Harris . In her essay, Nochlin examines the institutional - rather than the customary, individual - obstacles that have prevented women in the Western world from achieving success in the visual arts comparable to those of male artists .

The article first appeared in 1971 in the collection of essays Woman in Sexist Society, edited by Vivian Gornick and Barbara Moran . Studies in Power and Powerlessness and was soon published in ARTnews , one of the world's most widely read art journals. In the same year it appeared together with other essays and photographs in a further anthology on the subject under the title Women's liberation, women's artists, and art history . The article has been reprinted many times since then, including in Nochlin's collection of her essays Women, Art, and Power and Other Essays in 1988 . In 1996 the article was translated into German for the German-language collection of articles, Frame Change on Art History as a Feminist Cultural Studies. For the collection of essays Women Artists at the Millennium , in which artists, art historians and critics reflected on the changes in art practice and theory in 2006, Nochlin carried out her own inventory under the title "Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?" Thirty Years After " .

Bibliography (selection)

  • Linda Nochlin: Why Are There No Great Women Artists? In: Vivian Gornick, Barbara Moran (Ed.): Woman in Sexist Society. Studies in power and powerlessness . Basic Books, New York 1971, ISBN 0-465-09199-7 , pp. 344-366 .
  • Linda Nochlin: Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? In: ARTnews . tape 69 , no. January 9 , 1971, p. 22-39, 67-71 .
  • Linda Nochlin: Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? In: Thomas B. Hess, Eliszabeth C. Baker (Eds.): Art and Sexual Politics. Women's liberation, women's artists, and art history . Newsweek Books, New York 1971, pp. 1-39 .
  • Linda Nochlin: Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? In: Linda Nochlin (Ed.): Women, Art, and Power and Other Essays . Harper & Row, New York 1988, ISBN 0-06-435852-6 , pp. 145-178 .
  • Linda Nochlin: Why weren't there any great women artists? In: Barbara Söntgen (Ed.): Frame change. Art history as feminist cultural studies . Academy, Berlin 1996, p. 27-56 .
  • Linda Nochlin: Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? In: Maura Reilly (Ed.): Women artists. The Linda Nochlin reader . Thames & Hudson, New York 2015, ISBN 978-0-500-23929-2 , pp. 437-446, here 437 .

Web links

  • Reprinted from Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? in Nochlins Women, Art, and Power (1988) on the Internet Archive
  • Tiernan Morgan, Lauren Purje: An Illustrated Guide to Linda Nochlin's “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?” In: Hyperallergic . May 23, 2017 ( hyperallergic.com [accessed May 8, 2018]).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Eleanor C. Munro: Originals: American women artists . Da Capo Press, Boulder, CO 2000, ISBN 0-306-80955-9 .
  2. ↑ Helke Sander, Peter Gorsen: Women in Art . Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1980, ISBN 3-518-10952-9 .
  3. ↑ Rosemarie Buikema, Anneke Smelik: Women's studies and culture. A feminist introduction . Zed Books, London 1995, ISBN 1-85649-311-3 .
  4. ↑ Linda Nochlin: "Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?" Thirty Years After . In: Carol M. Armstrong, M. Catherine de Zegher (Eds.): Women Artists at the Millennium . MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass. 2006, ISBN 0-262-01226-X , pp. 21-32 .
  5. ↑ Bibliography: Linda Nochlin (1931-) . In: Maura Reilly (Ed.): Women artists. The Linda Nochlin reader . Thames & Hudson, New York 2015, ISBN 978-0-500-23929-2 , pp. 42-68 .