Catalogue d’exposition. Il s’agit de la première exposition rassemblant les œuvres de femmes peintres, organisée au Los Angeles Country Museum of Art par Ann Sutherland Harris, conservateur au Metropolitan Museum of Art de New York et Linda Nochlin, enseignante en histoire de l’art à l’université de Vassar. Ces œuvres jusque-là dispersées dans divers musées et collections privées, et rassemblées dans cette exposition et ce catalogue devenu un ouvrage de référence, font apparaître la place des femmes et leur influence parfois marquante dans l’histoire de l’art occidental. D’Italie en Flandres, en France, en Allemagne, en URSS, aux États-Unis, la vie et l’œuvre de : Catherina Van Hemessen, Sofonisba Anguissola, Fede Galizia, Judith Leyster, Clara Peeters, Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, Rosa Bonheur, Sonia Delaunay… Et bien d’autres.
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Linda Nochlin was an American art historian, university professor and writer. A prominent feminist art historian, she was best known as a proponent of the question "Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?", in an essay of the same name published in 1971. Her critical attention has been drawn to investigating the ways in which gender affects the creation and apprehension of art, as evidenced by her 1994 essay "Issues of Gender in Cassatt and Eakins". Besides feminist art history, she was best known for her work on Realism, specifically on Gustave Courbet. Complementing her career as an academic, she served on the Art Advisory Council of the International Foundation for Art Research. In 2006, Nochlin received a Visionary Woman Award] from Moore College of Art & Design.
