Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, 1874-1904: Sources and Documents.

by Linda Nochlin (Editor)

The author strikes a balance between a wide variety of familiar and less well-known sources to bring us the views of the writers of the time who in turn put into words the aspirations of the artists themselves. These sources trace the struggles of the artists to break away the traditional forms of expression and to attain a new vision of reality.

Genres: Art, Art History

Paperback

Published January 1, 1966

About the author

Linda Nochlin was an American art historian, university professor and writer. A prominent feminist art historian, she was best known as a proponent of the question "Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?", in an essay of the same name published in 1971.

Her critical attention has been drawn to investigating the ways in which gender affects the creation and apprehension of art, as evidenced by her 1994 essay "Issues of Gender in Cassatt and Eakins". Besides feminist art history, she was best known for her work on Realism, specifically on Gustave Courbet. Complementing her career as an academic, she served on the Art Advisory Council of the International Foundation for Art Research. In 2006, Nochlin received a Visionary Woman Award] from Moore College of Art & Design.