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Linda Nochlin
Renowned art historian and pioneering feminist Linda Nochlin explores how, from the late eighteenth century, fragmented, mutilated, and fetishized representations of the human body came to constitute a distinctively modern…
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Maura Reilly
The definitive anthology of writings on women in art by the late Linda Nochlin, one of the most influential and revolutionary voices in feminist art history.
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The 50th anniversary edition of the first major work of feminist art history, published together with the author’s reflections three decades on.
‘Fascinating essays … Nochlin is a woman of learning and accomplishment’ Andrea Dworkin
An incisive new piece of scholarship from renowned art historian Linda Nochlin tackling the concept of misere, or social misery, as it was reflected in the work of writers, artists…
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A leading critic and historian of nineteenth-century art and society explores in nine essays the interaction of art, society, ideas, and politics.
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Women, Art, and Power–seven landmark essays on women artists and women in art history–brings together the work of almost twenty years of scholarship and speculation.
Seven landmark essays on women artists and women in art history brings together the work of almost twenty years of scholarship and speculation.
Linda Nochlin explores the contradictions and dissonances that mark experience as well as art. Her book confronts the issues posed in representations of the body in the art of impressionists…
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A monograph on the American artist Mary Frank, concentrating on her paintings of the last 15 years. This book features an essay by an art historian and reproduces more than…
A selection of key essays on art from the nineteenth century to the present day by one of the most influential voices in art history.
An international picture of New Woman in film and photography
This exhibition catalogue marks the 20th anniversary of the death of American artist Nancy Graves (1939-1995), featuring work from the first half of her career, from 1969 to 1982. In…
German artist and 2017 Turner Prize nominee BYttner examines depictions of beggars in visual culture in this project about poverty, art history, theology, and the politics of social benefits. BYttner…
Unknown to most, the first women students to attend Yale University were members of its School of Art, present upon its inauguration in 1869. Despite the auspicious beginning it would…
Artists, art historians, and critics look at the legacies of feminism and critical theory in the work of women artists, more than thirty years after the beginning of the modern…
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