![]() So, essentially, Western art was replicating the unequal relationships already embedded in society. In the piece she investigated the social and economic factors that had prevented talented women from achieving the same status as their male counterparts.īuilding on that idea were parts of John Berger’s well-known book Ways of Seeing in 1972, which, among other things, explored the differences in representation of men and women. ![]() Though it’s hard to pinpoint, it’s thought that art historian Linda Nochlin’s essay titled, Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? first sparked the debate when it was published in 1971. Put simply, feminist art is art by artists created consciously in light of developments in feminist art theory in the early 1970s. ![]() But what is feminist art and what sparked a generation of artists to use their work to discuss the inequalities women had faced for centuries? The term “feminist art” gets bandied about a lot, often as a way to neatly categorize an artist’s work or even as a reason to dismiss it. ![]()
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