Linda Nochlin

Linda Nochlin ( born January 30, 1931 in New York City as Linda Weinberg) is an American art historian, who with her ​​essay, Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? 1971 laid the foundation for a feminist art history presented.

Life and work

Nochlin grew up as an only child in a wealthy, intellectual Jewish family in Brooklyn. She studied at Vassar College women, where in 1951 the BA acquired in philosophy with minors in Greek and history of art. She continued her studies at Columbia University in New York and continued where she earned an MA in 1952 in English literature 17th century history. She then worked as a lecturer at Vassar College, and later married. 1958 to 1959 she spent a year as a Fulbright scholar in Paris. In 1963 she was at the Institute of Fine Arts ( IFA) at New York University on Courbet for Ph. D. Ph.D. in art history. In 1969 she had a daughter and held the first lecture entitled Women and Art at Vassar College.

She taught as a professor of Art History ( Art History and Humanities ) at Yale University, and later she was Distinguished Professor of Art History at the Graduate Center of CUNY and Mary Conover Mellon Professor of Art History at Vassar College. In 1992 she was appointed Professor of Fine Arts at the IFA, since 1993 it has the Purple Acheson Wallace Chair of Art History at IFA held. In addition to her contributions to feminist art history Nochlin is best known for her work to realism, in particular to Courbet. Nochlin now lives in New York, and, more recently, deals with issues of age.

Awards

Publications (selection )

  • Courbet. Thames and Hudson, New York, 2007. ISBN 0-500-28676-0.
  • Aruna D' Souza and Linda Nochlin (Editor): Self and History: Essay in Honor of Linda Nochlin. Thames & Hudson, New York, 2001. ISBN 0-500-28250-1. ( Fourteen essays lectures that were originally held in 2001 at a conference at Princeton University in honor Nochlins. )
  • Representing Women. Thames and Hudson, New York, 1999. ISBN 0-500-28098-3.
  • The Body in Pieces - the fragment as a Metaphor of Modernity. Thames and Hudson, New York 1995. ISBN 0-500-28305-2.
  • The Politics of Vision - Essays on Nineteenth - Century Art and Society. Harper & Row, New York 1989. ISBN 0-064-30187-7.
  • Women, Art, and Power and Other Essays. Harper & Row, New York 1988 ISBN. 0-064-30183-4.
  • Realism - Style and Civilization. Penguin, Harmondsworth 1971. ISBN 0-140-13222-8.
  • Realism and Tradition in Art, 1848-1900 - Sources & Documents. Prentice- Hall, Englewood Cliffs (NJ ), 1966 ISBN. 0-137-66584-9.
  • Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? . In ARTnews, January 1971: pp. 22-39, and pp. 67-71.
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