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Linda Nochlin was born in New York on January 30, 1931, and died on October 29, 2017, aged 86. She one of the most relevant names of feminist approaches to art history. In 1971, he published his most famous article, entitled Why have there been no great women artists? The question - feminist, ironic and provocative - revolutionized the discipline of art history, too comfortable in its canons, where successions of artistic styles followed over time. From medieval art to the Renaissance, from this to Mannerism, then to Baroque, and so on to modern art. Common to all artistic movements, chronologies and nationalities was the fact that all artists were men. The legitimizing force of knowledge - as shown in books, curricula, museums and exhibitions - made the absence of female artists “natural”. If they weren't there, if we didn't read about them or see them on museum walls, they didn't exist. Or they didn't have enough "quality" to be there.
Not only did the author reveal that "they" existed and were many more than we would have imagined, but above all, she explained the mechanisms that had led to their invisibility throughout history. It also reversed the terms of the question: what was remarkable was that, despite the resistances, difficulties, and obstacles to women pursuing an artistic career in the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries, there were still so many and with so much quality. His question went beyond the discipline of Art History. According to Nochlin, it was necessary to deconstruct and rethink the "intellectual and ideological foundations of the various intellectual or academic disciplines," what many women were doing in various parts of the world in the 1970s.
