“Why have there been no great women artists?” asked American art historian Linda Nochlin in a landmark 1971 essay.
Four decades later, her question still stands: while a handful of Western female painters, sculptors, and performance artists – Frida Kahlo, Louise Bourgeois, Marina Abramovic – have achieved the same level of fame as their male counterparts, the West’s elite art world continues to be dominated by male artists, curators, dealers, and collectors.
Look elsewhere around the globe, however, and women are thriving in some of the most dynamic up-and-coming art scenes. They’re even achieving widespread success in a country not exactly known for women’s rights: Pakistan. Female artists from the developing Muslin nation have been recently feted in exhibits like last year’s Hanging Fire at New York’s Asia Society and the Fukuoka Asian Art Triennial in Japan [...]
(Newsweek, September 6, 2010)
De acordo com o texto, Linda Nochlin
fez uma pergunta a uma grande historiadora de arte.
atingiu amplo sucesso como artista no mundo ocidental.
foi uma historiadora americana que morreu em 1971.
levou quatro décadas para escrever sobre a história da arte.
escreveu um importante ensaio sobre história da arte em 1971.