![]() ![]() the art market: how much people will pay as an index of value in broader terms.the selection of works that populate museums and art history books.My talk could not address them all, so I chose some topics that inform how greatness was and is defined as it pertains to early modern women artists by pointing out some avenues to explore In a talk delivered at the Prado as part of a conference held January 27–28, 2020 in conjunction with the exhibition on Sofonisba Anguissola and Lavinia Fontana, I tried to reassess the issue of “greatness” with regard to women by applying Nochlin’s thesis to the Renaissance-Baroque period. Instead, she queried the determinants informing the definition of “greatness,” concluding that conditions affecting women’s lives and training-compounded by the priorities and practices of art history, art criticism, the art market, and many museums-have kept women at the margins. Nochlin admonished against arguments for including women artists who deserve to be called “great” within the existing historical and critical framework. ![]() Art and Sexual Politics: Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? Edited by Thomas B. ![]()
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