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The Story of Art Without Men (Audiobook Taster!)

The Great Women Artists

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Women's Contribution to the History of Art

In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, leading male artists were often termed virtuosi. It took until the end of the nineteenth century for women to be allowed to study the nude from life. Until 19 76, when feminist art historians nocklin and anne sutherland harris's touring exhibition opened at the los angeles county museum of art, that women were even acknowledged as having contributed to 400 years of art. This show kick started the scholarship, still scant, that we have on these pre twentieth century artists. They broke boundaries, taught the next generations, and, often rejecting gender conventions and tackling radical subjects,. pave the way for the artists of to day.

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