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Linda Nochlin came to show in the 1970s that there were women artists and they were many more than we could imagine.
Linda Nochlin was 40 years old when, in 1971, she published in Artnews an article titled Why There Were No Great Women Artists? (Why have there been no great women artists?). The question - feminist, ironic and provocative - revolutionized the discipline of art history, too comfortable in its canons where successions of artistic styles followed over time.