Meanwhile, it’s worth noting that the highest record price for a female artist’s work is only 12% of the equivalent male record (Jenny Saville and David Hockney, respectively). Why weren't there any great women artists? In gratitude to Linda Nochlin It was 400 years before Artemisia Gentileschi got a major solo exhibition at London’s National Gallery – she was the first female artist to get one. ( More precisely: 21 out of 2,300.) The first major solo exhibition of a female artist - Artemisia Gentileschi - was not staged there until 2020 (it only took Gentileschi 400 years). Only 1% of London’s National Gallery collection is by female artists. Nochlin’s ideas, striking when first published, remain culturally significant.
The second text Hessel references is Linda Nochlin’s game-changing 1971 ARTnews article “Why have there been no great women artists?” Nochlin described the masculine artist-hero myth as the “entire, romantic, elitist, individual, and monograph-producing substructure upon which the profession of art history is based”. It is a corrective to the woefully unbalanced, lopsided understanding of art history that has travelled with us into the 21st century. Women have been men’s “companions” in the world of art forever Hessel’s is a text about women artists in their own right, not as an adjunct to men. I find myself wanting to describe Hessel’s book as a “companion” volume to Gombrich’s, but this is the wrong designation. (It’s worth noting that Vasari’s The Lives of Artists, first published in 1550, features four women artists.) Even when it was updated to its 16th edition, female representation was increased to a resounding total of one. Hessel tells us that the 1950 edition of Gombrich included not a single female artist. Women are almost completely absent from its pages.
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The first is clearly signalled in the title: Ernst Gombrich’s The Story of Art has been an introductory manual for generations of fine art students. The Story of Art Without Men springboards from two seminal texts.
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