Loss and Recovery: Why There Are No Great Female Artists

Author: (American) Noclin et al. / Li Jianqun et al.
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Publish Date: 2004-11-01
Features: "The question of why there are no great female artists" is just the tip of the iceberg of misunderstanding and erroneous concepts. Below is a bigger issue, namely the nature of art and its accompanying phenomena, the universal nature of human talent, and the nature of outstanding human abilities and their roles in all social orders. Feminist art history research is a new trend, perspective, and methodology in contemporary Western art history studies, as well as an indispensable part of postmodernist art trends. Since its inception, feminist art history has spanned thirty years, evolving from emphasizing the social reasons for gender differences to adopting sociological, Marxist, and psychoanalytic theories to study the living conditions of women in different social and ethnic environments and their impact on the development of art history. This book selects ten representative and influential Western feminist art history papers, discussing the development of Western feminist art history theory and practice, and showcasing the basic features of Western feminist art history. They represent a series of corrections to traditional interpretations of art history, with their common focus being the reinterpretation of history and the redefinition of the cultural and social functions of art.