Loss and Recovery (Why There Are No Great Female Artists)

Author: (American) Noclin et al., translated by Li Jianqun et al.
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Publish Date: 2004-11-01
Features: The question of "Why are there no great female artists" is just the tip of the iceberg of misunderstandings and erroneous concepts. Below lies a bigger issue: the nature of art and its accompanying phenomena, the universal nature of human talent, 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 component of postmodernist art trends. Since its inception, feminist art history has spanned three decades, evolving from emphasizing the social reasons for gender differences to adopting sociological, Marxist, and psychoanalytic theories to study the survival 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 its fundamental characteristics. These papers represent a series of corrections to traditional interpretations of art history, sharing a common focus on: new interpretations of history and new definitions of the cultural and social functions of art.