Linda Nochlin was an American art historian, Lila Acheson Wallace Professor Emerita of Modern Art at New York University Institute of Fine Arts, and writer.
13 Facts About Linda Nochlin
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In 2000, Self and History: A Tribute to Linda Nochlin was published, an anthology of essays developing themes that Nochlin worked on throughout her career.
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Linda Nochlin was the co-curator of a number of landmark exhibitions exploring the history and achievements of female artists.
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In March 2007, Nochlin co-curated the feminist art exhibition "Global Feminisms" alongside Maura Reilly at the Elizabeth A Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum, New York City, United States.
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Linda Nochlin considered the very nature of art along with the reasons why the notion of artistic genius has been reserved for male geniuses, such as Michelangelo.
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Linda Nochlin argued that significant societal barriers have prevented women from pursuing art, including restrictions on educating women in art academies and "the entire romantic, elitist, individual-glorifying, and monograph-producing substructure upon which the profession of art history is based ".
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The thirty-year anniversary of Linda Nochlin's ground-breaking inquiry informed a conference at Princeton University in 2001.
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Linda Nochlin deconstructed art history by identifying and questioning methodological presuppositions.
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Linda Nochlin focused primarily on the 19th century French artists Jean-Leon Gerome and Eugene Delacroix, who both depicted 'orientalist' themes in their work, including, respectively, The Snake Charmer and The Death of Sardanapalus.
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In Gerome's "The Snake Charmer," from the late 1860s, Linda Nochlin described how Gerome created a sense of verisimilitude not only in his rendering of the scene with such realistic precision one almost forgets a painter painted it, but in capturing the most minute details, such as meticulously painted tiles.
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In Delacroix's "The Death of Sardanapalus" from 1827, Linda Nochlin argued that the artist used Orientalism to explore overt erotic and violent themes that may not necessarily reflect France's cultural hegemony but rather the chauvinism and misogyny of early 19th century French society.
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Linda Nochlin then married Richard Pommer, an architectural historian, in 1968.
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Linda Nochlin's published writings encompass 156 works in 280 publications in 12 languages and 20,393 library holdings.