Linda Nochlin Knihy

This illustrated, edited collection of essays brings together for the first time some of the pioneering art historian Linda Nochlin's most important writings on modernism and modernity from across her six-decade career. Before the publication of her seminal tract on feminism in art, 'Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?', Nochlin had already firmly established herself as a major practitioner of a politically sophisticated and class-conscious social art history, with her writings on modernism being transformative to the discipline. Nochlin embraced Charles Baudelaire's conviction that modernity meant to be of one's time - and that the role of an art historian was to understand the art of the past not only in its own historical context, but according to the urgencies of the contemporary world. From academic debates about the nude in the 18th century to the work of Robert Gober in the 21st, whatever she turned her analytic eye to was very much conceived as the art of the now - the art we need to look at to navigate the complexities and contradictions of the present

What does the Jew stand for in modern culture? The conscious or unconscious, often hysterical repetition of myths and exaggerations, and the repertory of cliches, fantasies and phobias surrounding the stereotypes of the Jew and the Jewess, have meant that they are figures frequently represented both in the world of literature and art and in the industries of popular culture.

Providing an overview of Nochlins life and work, this book includes both her major thematic texts and her monographic texts on major women artists, both historical and modern. It will be suitable for students and academics working in the fields of art history and historiography, gender and womens studies, cultural history and theory.

`Fascinating essays ... Nochlin is a woman of learning and accomplishment' Andrea Dworkin

This fiftieth anniversary edition features Linda Nochlin's groundbreaking essay, recognized as a foundational work in feminist art theory, alongside her reflections from three decades later. Nochlin's seminal piece is often viewed as the first serious attempt at a feminist history of art. In her revolutionary approach, she challenged the question of why there were no 'great women artists' by dismantling the very notion of greatness itself, exposing the male-centric assumptions that have dominated art history. With sharp insight and wit, she critiqued the acceptance of a white male perspective and argued that true progress requires women to embrace uncertainty and disrupt existing art institutions to create new ones. This edition includes "Thirty Years After," a reappraisal written during a time of flourishing feminist, queer, race, and postcolonial theories. In this reflection, Nochlin examines the emergence of a new canon, referencing artists like Joan Mitchell, Louise Bourgeois, and Cindy Sherman. Her essay has become a rallying cry that continues to resonate today, emphasizing the ongoing struggle for recognition and equality in the art world. As Nochlin stated in 2015, "There is still a long way to go." The edition includes 13 black-and-white illustrations.

Setting Realism in its social and historical context, the author discusses the crucial paradox posed by Realist works of art - notably in the revolutionary paintings of Courbet, the works of Manet, Degas and Monet, of the Pre-Raphaelites and other English, American, German and Italian Realists.

Renowned art historian and pioneering feminist Linda Nochlin explores how, from the late eighteenth century, fragmented, mutilated, and fetishized representations of the human body came to constitute a distinctively modern view of the world.

Widely considered to be one of the most engaging and fascinating artists of our time, Kiki Smith has, over the past 25 years, developed into a major figure in the world of twenty-first-century art. Her subject matter is as wide-ranging as the materials her work has encompassed. In the 1980s, with her earliest figural sculptures in plaster, glass and wax, Smith developed an elaborate vocabulary around the forms and functions of the body and its metaphorical as well as physical relationship to society. By the early 1990s, she began to engage with themes of a more religious and mythological nature. Her re-imaginings of biblical women as inhabitants of physical bodies--rather than as abstract bearers of doctrine--led her to make series of sculptural works related to the figure of the Virgin Mary, Mary Magdalene, Lilith and others. The artist has more recently considered fairy tales and folk narratives as well as nurturing a growing menagerie of work concerned with animals and the natural world. Smith has now earned a considerable reputation as a virtuoso printmaker and draftsperson, and as a re-inventor of the startling sculptural possibilities present in materials ranging from paper and resin to bronze and porcelain. Organized by the Walker Art Center with the full collaboration of the artist, the exhibition Kiki Smith represents the artist's first full-scale monograph.

Linda Nochlin zählt zu den einflussreichsten Kunsthistoriker:innen. Seit den 1960er Jahren hat sie zahlreiche Bücher und Artikel verfasst sowie bedeutende Ausstellungen kuratiert. Der zweite Teil ihrer Essaysammlung versammelt ihre Beiträge über Frauen in der Kunst aus den Jahren 2000 bis 2015, einschließlich Arbeiten über viele prominente Künstlerinnen.