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Author: (USA) Linda Nochlin
Translator: You Huizhen
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Publish Date: 2005-06-01
Features: This book is a pioneering work in the study of gender and art, as well as a classic in women's art criticism. The author is the founder of feminist art history, and this collection of essays compiles her two decades of reflections on gender, art, and power, starting from the 1970s. Through an examination of visual imagery from the late 18th to the early 20th centuries, it reveals the structure and operation of mainstream discourse in art works, as well as the underlying ideology. It proposes an alternative perspective to male authority, affirming the achievements of female artists. Under the influence of the feminist movement in the 1970s, Linda Nochlin, as an art historian, reflected on why there were no great female artists, thus beginning a series of thoughts on gender, art, and power. This collection, through visual imagery from the late 18th to the early 20th centuries, exposes the structures and operations that centralize specific categories of works, as well as the underlying ideology. It proposes an alternative perspective to male authority, affirming the achievements of female artists.