Why have there been no great female artists?

In 1971, Linda Nochlin announced the dawn of a feminist art history through the Question: “Why have there been no great female artists?” Even today, this essay, which deconstructs prejudices and opens up new ones, Horizons remains a founding figure for the history of art. Linda Nochlin shows that the The question of the absence of great female artists is biased and she refuses to address it. respond. With exceptional acuity, it shows rather how adoption from the sole point of view of the white male in thought, notably with the notion of necessarily masculine genius, is a failure both morally and intellectually. French, this question has always been translated into the masculine, postulating precisely because the use of the idea of ​​grandeur in the history of art has systematically been formulated by men, on men. From tait, the feminine was purely and simply excluded from it. \n \nFor the fiftieth anniversary of its first published, this text is here retranslated and accompanied by its re-evaluation by Linda Nochlin herself. Written in 2001, at a time when feminist and queer theories as well as postcolonial studies are asserted, "Thirty Years Later" is a reflection on the emergence of a new canon. Referring to Louise Bourgeois, Cindy Sherman and many others, Linda Nochlin offers a contemporary overview of the situation of women in art. Now, "Why have there been no great artists women?" has become a rallying cry that resonates throughout our society, a message that still remains relevant and necessary today, since as she herself said it again in 2015, the road is still long...