![]() “hings as they are and as they have been, in the arts as in a hundred other areas, are stultifying, oppressive and discouraging to all those, women among them, who did not have the good fortune to be born white, preferably middle class and, above all, male,” Nochlin wrote in her essay. Nochlin is best known for her pioneering 1971 essay “ Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?”, in which she argued that societal forces-and not a lack of “genius” or inherent talent-had for centuries kept women artists from attaining the same professional success and regard as their male counterparts. She was 86 years old, according to Andrew Russeth of ARTnews. ![]() ![]() Linda Nochlin, an esteemed art historian who sparked a new era of feminist criticism within her field, has died. ![]()
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