Word: nochlin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Angeles County Museum of Art and will travel in 1977 to Austin, Pittsburgh and New York City. Entitled "Women Artists: 1550-1950," it is the first full-dress historical survey of its subject ever made. The organizers are two distinguished scholars, Ann Sutherland Harris and Linda Nochlin. Their catalogue is the fundamental text on its subject. Professor Nochlin's essay alone, with its dense research and propulsive common sense, provides the right antidote to the tendentious stomp-the-pigs puffery of more militant feminist critics...
Harris and Nochlin, in fascinating detail, show exactly how it could-and did: the social conditions that militated against women's becoming "fine" artists during the Renaissance, the restrictions on literacy, training, access to professional company and guilds, the peculiar moral shibboleths, the stereotype of the cultured woman as accomplished dabbler, engaged in what George Eliot called "small tinkling and smearing." "Let men busy themselves with all that has to do with great art," trumpeted one French critic in 1860. "Let women occupy themselves with those types of art that they have always preferred, such as pastels, portraits...
...feminine sensibility-fluffy, vaporous, pink-and-white-retreats before most of the work in this show, the sense of female experience does not. That theme is announced almost at once, in the work of Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1652), the daughter of a well-known Tuscan painter, who became, as Nochlin puts it, "the first woman in the history of Western art to make a significant and undeniably important contribution to the art of her time." Gentileschi's Susanna and the Elders (1610) is a work of staggering precocity, painted when she was 17. Beauty spied on and plotted against...
...most interesting, versatile and well-known art historians is speaking at Harvard tomorrow. Linda Nochlin, who's a professor at Vassar and whose books are recommended reading, at least, in Fine Arts 13 and most of the Fine Arts department's post-1800 courses, will be lecturing on Manet's Ball at the Opera at 4 p.m. in the Christian Room at the Fogg. Nochlin is a great scholar, but she's also written about problems of art and artists in our own time--the state of scholarship on women artists, the problems of government funding for art. It should...
...ever since art history began to be systematically written, its heroes have all been men. From Praxiteles through Michelangelo to Cézanne and Matisse, the sex of Western genius never varies. Where were the great women artists? Silence. "The fact of the matter is," argued Art Historian Linda Nochlin in a brilliant essay for Art News, "that there have been no supremely great women artists, although there have been many interesting and good ones; nor have there been any great Lithuanian jazz pianists, nor Eskimo tennis players, no matter how much we might wish there had been...