Enfilade

Due out this summer from Thames & Hudson:

Linda Nochlin, Women Artists: The Linda Nochlin Reader, edited by Maura Reilly (London: Thames & Hudson, 2015), 434 pages, ISBN: 978-0500239292, $50.

Linda Nochlin is one of the most accessible, provocative, and innovative art historians of our time. In 1971 she published her essay “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?”—a dramatic feminist call-to-arms that called traditional art historical practices into question and led to a major revision of the discipline.

Women Artists brings together twenty-nine essential essays from throughout Nochlin’s career, making this the definitive anthology of her writing about women in art. Included are her major thematic texts “Women Artists After the French Revolution” and “Starting from Scratch: The Beginnings of Feminist Art History,” as well as the landmark essay and its rejoinder “‘Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?’ Thirty Years After.” These appear alongside monographic entries focusing on a selection of major women artists including Mary Cassatt, Louise Bourgeois, Cecily Brown, Kiki Smith, Miwa Yanagi, and Sophie Calle. Women Artists also presents two new essays written specifically for this book and an interview with Nochlin investigating the position of women artists today.

Linda Nochlin is a highly celebrated feminist art historian. She is the Lila Acheson Wallace Professor of Modern Art Emerita at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Her major books include Courbet, Representing Women, and Women, Art, and Power.

Maura Reilly has worked as a critic for Art in America and as a lecturer at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. She has held curatorial positions at the Brooklyn Museum and at the American Federation of Arts, New York. She is coauthor, with Linda Nochlin, of Global Feminisms: New Directions in Contemporary Art.