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The absence of women from the canon of Western art has been a subject of inquiry and reconsideration since the early 1970s. Linda Nochlin's influential 1971 essay, "Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?", examined the social and institutional barriers that blocked most women from entering artistic professions throughout history, prompted a new focus on women artists, their art and ...
This is a partial list of 20th-century women artists, sorted alphabetically by decade of birth.These artists are known for creating artworks that are primarily visual in nature, in traditional media such as painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking, ceramics as well as in more recently developed genres, such as installation art, performance art, conceptual art, digital art and video art.
n the visual arts. Organized by country, by work and by other attributes. By country. List of Algerian women artists; ... Women in the art history field; Women ...
Joan Carlile (c. 1606–1679) Mary Beale (1633-1699) Elizabeth Creed (1642–1728) - aristocrat, artist and philanthropist, amateur painter. Cousin of the poet John Dryden. Elizabeth Haselwood (c. 1644 – 1715) - the only woman silversmith recorded as having worked in Norwich. Susan Penelope Rosse (1652–1700) - miniaturist, daughter of ...
Women artists from the United States. This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:American artists . It includes artists that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
Pacita Abad (1946–2004) Lida Abdul (born 1973) Marina Abramović (born 1946) Eija-Liisa Ahtila (born 1959) Peggy Ahwesh (born 1954) Jerri Allyn (born 1954) Ghada Amer (born 1963) Grimanesa Amorós (born 1962) Alice Anderson (born 1972)
Women were professionally active in the academic discipline of art history in the nineteenth century and participated in the important shift early in the century that began involving an "emphatically corporeal visual subject", with Vernon Lee as a notable example. [1] It is argued that in the twentieth century women art historians (and curators ...
The feminist art movement refers to the efforts and accomplishments of feminists internationally to produce art that reflects women's lives and experiences, as well as to change the foundation for the production and perception of contemporary art. It also seeks to bring more visibility to women within art history and art practice.