linda nochlin why have there been no great female artists

It was the Turbine Hall at the Tate Modern, so more of an art space, really. ĭo you remember the first piece of art you loved?

Also my elder sister was really into art history, and so I basically just copied her. I remember the first time I ever took the Tube myself, I went to go see the Chris Ofili exhibition at Tate Britain.

I don’t come from an artistic family, but my parents were always very encouraging of museum visits. Katy Hessel: Since I was a kid, I’ve been fascinated by art. It’s clear Hessel’s devotion to women artists is deeply seated. Making our way through Nina Katchadourian’s fantastic “Uncommon Denominator” exhibition at the Morgan, Hessel was a font of knowledge, stopping at a Vivian Maier photograph (Maier’s in the book, page 214, and would soon be a subject of episode 104 of the podcast) and a newspaper clipping that reminded Hessel of an Anna Atkins cyanotype, a type of photographic print Atkins pioneered in the mid-19th century (pictured on page 85 in the book). In fact, women were often at the forefront, but then forgotten. But there were women too!” Hessel effuses. “When we think of the canon, whatever ‘the canon’ is, it’s Giotto, it’s Caravaggio, it’s Leonardo, it’s Rothko, Pollock, whatever. (She includes sections on queer artists and artists of color, too.) Reading the book, I felt almost giddy as I reached each art-historical moment without the usual suspects mentioned. Still, it’s a radical premise, rewriting history and upending the dominance men have held over so much of our culture. If anything, it’s like a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a fraction,” says Hessel, 29, who was born and raised in London. “This book is not the definitive art history. Gombrich’s classic tome The Story of Art, suggests, Hessel traces art history’s movements from the Renaissance to the present with a sole focus on women artists. on May 2.Īs the book’s title, a nod to E.H. We’re at the Morgan Library in Manhattan on a beautiful spring day, discussing, yes, art-and all the ways Hessel has integrated the lives of artists into her multifaceted career as the creator of the beloved The Great Women Artists Instagram account and podcast, and, most recently, as the author of The Story of Art Without Men, which is published in the U.S. “I could just talk about art all day,” says Katy Hessel, grinning as she sips her tea.

Linda nochlin why have there been no great female artists