![]() At the time Nochlin was teaching art history at Vassar, and after reading the second-wave feminist publications such as Redstockings Newsletter and Everywoman her work took a different direction. This particular text appeared in the 1971 edition of ArtNews, which thematized Women’s Liberation, Woman Artists, and Art History. Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? was written by Linda Nochlin, one of the most important feminist art historians. ![]() To bring you closer some of the most important essays written during the second half of the twentieth century we selected seven prolific examples which shook the way we understand and interpret art.įeatured image: Reader with On Photography by Susan Sontag. Some essays were so innovative and radical that they changed to course of the art history, sending it in entirely new directions. ![]() Various intellectuals differing in professions started grasping the impact both historical and modern art had on human thought and the society. Art criticism as an autonomous discipline/genre came to prominence in the 19th century with various thinkers and distinguished authors.Īrt essay as a specific form of exploring certain aesthetic and formal issues appeared with the rise of modernity. ![]() It can be said that writing about art came to provenance throughout The Age of Reason or The Age of Enlightenment, with the critical texts written mainly by philosophers such as Denis Diderot and as Johann Joachim Winckelmann. ![]()
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