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Article: Women Artists: An Illustrated History.
- Article from:
- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- January 9, 1988
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WOMEN ARTISTS: AN ILLUSNATED HISTORY. Nancy Heller. Virago. 228 pages. [Br pound]30
HAVE women artists been so neglected because their work does not stand comparison with the masters? Nancy Heller doubts it; she suggests that the reputations of women artists have faded faster than those of men partly because records have been falsified, and that they were falsified because it was not believed that first-class art could be produced by a woman.
Women artists have been recorded since antiquity. Pliny cited several working in Ancient Greece; Vasari gave due recognition to the female painters of the Renaissance; the nineteenth century produced a flood of ...