How many female artists can you name? Frida Kahlo Georgia O'Keefe Marina Abramovic? How about
female artists who lived prior to the Modern era? Maybe Artemisia Gentileschi and then... even
a regular museum-goer might run out of steam. What about female curators critics patrons
collectors muses models and art influencers? This book provides a 360 degree look at the role
influence and empowerment of women through art?including women artists but going beyond those
who have taken up a brush or a chisel. In 1971 Linda Nochlin published a famous essay Why
Have There Been No Great Women Artists?? This book responds to it by showing that not only have
there been scores of great women artists throughout history but that great women have shaped
the story of art. The result is a book that sheds light on the art world in a very new way
finally celebrating the great women artists and influencers who deserve to be much better
known. The entire history of art can be told as a herstory of art.
