“In this essay, Nochlin encouraged her colleagues to rethink their approach to unearthing forgotten female artists,” writes Morrill. However, she says, there is one key text that really framed the way we look at female artistic production: Feminist art historian Linda Nochlin’s celebrated 1971 essay, ‘Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?’ The book’s commissioning editor, Rebecca Morrill traces similar titles back as far as 1361, with the publication of Giovanni Boccaccio’s De Claris Mulieribus (‘Concerning Famous Women’). Great Women Artists is not the first book to view art history through the prism of gender. In our new book, Great Women Artists, editor Rebecca Morrill recalls one key feminist text and its repercussions All images from Great Women Artists So how do you judge what makes a Great Woman Artist? Marie Joséphine Charlotte du Val d'Ognes (1801) by Marie-Denise Villers.
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