书籍介绍
这本书最锋利之处，不在于为被遗忘的女性艺术家翻案，而在于它拒绝回答那个被反复提出的问题——'为什么没有伟大的女性艺术家'。Nochlin 指出，一旦我们试图正面回应，就已经默认接受了'伟大'标准本身的中立性，而这一标准恰恰由男性主导的机构、教育与权力结构所塑造。她要把矛头从'女性的身体'转向'女性的处境'：问题不在子宫、激素或天分，而在谁有资格成为艺术家、谁的创作被承认、什么被称为'伟大'。这种把'缺席'重新定义为'被制度性排除'的视角，使本书超越了一般的女性艺术史书写，成为审视艺术体制如何生产'例外'与'边缘'的标本。适合那些不愿接受'天才神话'、想追问艺术价值背后权力运作的人。
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核心看点
- 解构“为何没有伟大女艺术家”的伪命题
- 揭示社会制度对女性艺术家的系统性压制
- 批判将“天才”神话化及性别双重标准
读者共识
- 诺克林的论述具有开创性，是女性主义艺术史基石
- 语言平实详尽，深刻揭示了性别与权力的互文关系
- 部分观点被指略显陈词滥调，但核心洞见依然有力
精彩摘录
- "“出卖自己”和“堕落”一样是个有性别差异的语汇：对一个男人而言，出卖自己变得意思不是做性交易赚钱——如女人的情况一般，而是为了金钱违背自己的艺术，出卖自己的才华，简单说，就是"出卖“——这种命运对男性而言比死还糟糕，尤其对艺术家来说更是如此。"
- "作为一个女人——就像作为一个美国人或一个侏儒或出生于1900年而非1940年一样——可以是艺术作品创作时的一项变量，甚至是一项重要变量，但是这个基本因素无从提供什么预期。某个艺术家是女性，是她选择某个风格或题材的必要条件，而非充分条件，除了性别之外，她还有很多其他的条件元素，诸如她的国籍，年龄，专业训练，气质，对现有表现形式的反应，或者她自我认同的优先次序等等。"
- "..........But they do nothing to question the assumptions lying behind the question “ Why have there been no great women artists?” On the contrary, by attempting to answer it, they tacitly reinforce its negative implications. Another attempt to answer the question involves shifting the ground slight"
- "The fact of the matter is that there have been no supremely great women artists, as far as we know, although there have been many interesting and very good ones who remain insufficiently investigated or appreciated; nor have there been any great Lithuanian jazz pianists, nor Eskimo tennis players, n"
- "But in actuality, as we all know, things as they are and as they have been, in the arts as in a hundred other areas, are stultifying, oppressive, and discouraging to all those, women among them, who did not have the good fortune to be born white, preferably middle class and, above all, male. The fau"
- "It is when one really starts thinking about the implications of “ Why have there been no great women artists?” that one begins to realize to what extent our consciousness of how things are in the world has been conditioned—and often falsified—by the way the most important questions are posed. We ten"
- "As John Stuart Mill pointed out more than a century ago: “Everything which is usual appears natural. The subjection of women to men being a universal custom, any departure from it quite naturally appears unnatural.”Most men, despite lip service to equality, are reluctant to give up this “ natural” o"
- "why there have been no great women artists lies not in the nature of individual genius or the lack of it, but in the nature of given social institutions and what they forbid or encourage in various classes or groups of individuals. ............Indeed, it was argued by defenders of traditional painti"
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1989年的文章就提出过的一些问题，到现在都大部分没有能好好被对待，太讽刺了。
部分观点有点创见 但总体来说cliche比较多
1970s "Why have there been no great women artists" on artistic genius
NYU摄影艺术史课上读过的；landmark feminist writings。
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