Linda Nochlin's seminal essay on women artists is widely
acknowledged as the first real attempt at a feminist history of
art. Nochlin refused to handle the question of why there had been
no 'great women artists' on its own, corrupted, terms. Instead, she
dismantled the very concept of 'greatness', unravelling the basic
assumptions that had centred a male-coded 'genius' in the study of
art. With unparalleled insight and startling wit, Nochlin laid bare
the acceptance of a white male viewpoint in art historical thought
as not merely a moral failure, but an intellectual one. Freedom, as
she sees it, requires women to risk entirely demolishing the art
world's institutions, and rebuilding them anew - in other words, to
leap into the unknown. In this stand-alone anniversary edition,
Nochlin's essay is published alongside its reappraisal, 'Thirty
Years After'. Written in an era of thriving feminist theory, as
well as queer theory, race and postcolonial studies, 'Thirty Years
After' is a striking reflection on the emergence of a whole new
canon. With reference to Joan Mitchell, Louise Bourgeois, Cindy
Sherman and many more, Nochlin diagnoses the state of women and art
with unmatched precision and verve. 'Why Have There Been No Great
Women Artists?' has become a slogan and rallying cry that resonates
across culture and society; Dior even adopted it in their 2018
collections. In the 2020s, at a time when 'certain patriarchal
values are making a comeback', Nochlin's message could not be more
urgent: as she herself put it in 2015, 'there is still a long way
to go'. With 14 illustrations
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