Situar en la Historia

The figure of Linda Nochlin is one of the most important in the history of art in the last third of the twentieth century. Formed by the great historians who, fleeing Europe in the 1930s, settled in the United States and ended up at the Institute of Fine Arts in New York, she taught over several generations of historians both in the United States and in Europe. Author of fundamental texts such as Realism or "Why haven't there been great women artists?", A seminal article in the History of Feminist Art that opens this volume, her name is today unavoidable in any reflection on gender and gender. historical-artistic practice in general. This anthology is a reflection of Nochlin's production over more than 3 decades, especially in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. They are not texts that respond to a precise theme, but rather tenor essays are combined more theoretical with others dedicated to Gustave Courbet, the painter he wrote the most about, and finally with various monographic articles dedicated to an artist or a work. This selection will allow the reader to verify its evolution, its way of defining its objects of study, the theoretical models to which it refers, or its response to the new orientations of Art History towards a more theoretical and interdisciplinary paradigm.