Nochlin points out that you can copy and paste any minority or discriminated group in for women and have a valid question. When Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists was originally published in 1971 it was a completely absurd idea to say that there have been no great women artists not because of a lack of potential for women to reach greatness, but because exclusive institutions mediate individual successes. But once that fact is established the question becomes why? At first, feminists battled the concept of this book by listing underappreciated women artists, but the sad truth is that there have been no female equivalents of Picasso, Michelangelo, Monet, or Andy Warhol. Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? by Linda Nochlin was one of the first essays about feminist art history.
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