In this classic essay, renowned art historian and pioneering feminist Linda Nochlin explores how, from the late 18th century, fragmented, mutilated and fetishized representations of the human body came to constitute a distinctively modern view of the world. The work of an original thinker at the height of her powers, it remains a thought-provoking and compelling read.
Linda Nochlin 19312017 was Lila Acheson Wallace Professor Emerita of Modern Art at the New York University Institute of Fine Arts She wrote extensively on issues of gender in art history and on 19thcentury Realism Her numerous publications include iWomen Art and Power Representing Womeni and iCourbeti as well as the pioneering essay from 1971 Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists
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