Why weren't there any great women artists? In gratitude to Linda Nochlin
- Written by Joanna Mendelssohn, Principal Fellow (Hon), Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. Editor in Chief, Design and Art of Australia Online, University of Melbourne
Judith Beheading Holofernes, painted by Artemisia Gentileschi c. 1614-20.Museo di Capodimonte, Napoli/Wikimedia CommonsIn January 1971, Art News published Linda Nochlin’s Why have there been no great women artists?
Her essay was both a clarion call for a new generation of women and a signal to change the institutions that shape the...





