![]() ![]() While there is, as always, more work to be done to account for women artists globally, there have been major developments in the field over the past five decades. There was a new urgency to revise the traditional art historical canon and make space for the women who had been overlooked, diminished, or given no credit for their work. ![]() ![]() There was no lack of representations of women in art made by men, but little attention had been dedicated to women artists themselves. Off the top of your head, how many women artists can you name? If you can list more than a handful or the ever-popular Frida Kahlo or Georgia O’Keeffe, you have the work of feminist art historians to thank.īeginning in earnest in the 1970s, feminists began to question the lack of women accounted for in art historical scholarship and in museums. ![]()
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