The shortage
of great women artists in our galleries or art history isn't a result of a conspiracy to write them out of history — they were not there in the first place.
It is hard to mention each artist equally, there are so many
great women artists who emerged from the feminist struggles in the 1970s but also from the younger art generation nowadays.
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Many great women artists have suffered from the shadow effect, they have been out of public view until their 60s and 70s,» she said.
It addresses the gender imbalance in the presentation of art by bringing to light important women artists of the past and promoting
great women artists working today.
People are especially happy about the inclusion of lots
of great women artists and a handful of queer artists.
Great Critics and Their Ideas: Friedrich Engels, the great founder of Marxism,
on great women artists, interviewed by Matthew Collings
NMWA addresses the gender imbalance in the presentation of art by bringing to light important women artists of the past while
promoting great women artists working today.
By bringing to light remarkable women artists of the past while also promoting the best women artists working today, the Women's Museum directly addresses the gender imbalance in the presentation of art in the U.S. and abroad, thus
assuring great women artists a place of honor now and into the future.
Great Washington Museums
Celebrate Great Women Artists is a NMWA - organized collaborative city - wide project highlighting works by women artists.
With that in mind, she launched Valeria Napoleone XX, a project aimed at «increasing the visibility
of great women artists» works and their practice.»
She described the situation like this: «The fact of the matter is that there have been no
supremely great women artists, as far as we know, although there have been many interesting and very good ones who remain insufficiently investigated or appreciated; nor have there been any great Lithuanian jazz pianists, nor Eskimo tennis players, no matter how much we might wish there had been.»
I'd taken at least five art history classes in college, but then I enrolled in one where I learned about
the great women artists of the world.
MR: In January 1971, you published «Why Have There Been
No Great Women Artists?»
LN: When I embarked on «Why Have There Been
No Great Women Artists?»
In 1989, nearly two decades after the publication of «Why Have There Been
No Great Women Artists?
Nochlin said that when she began writing «Why Have There Been
No Great Women Artists?»
It made me think, because, first of all, it implied that there were
no great women artists.
In 1971, Nochlin earned widespread attention for her landmark essay «Why Have There Been
No Great Women Artists?