A selection of key essays by one of the most influential voices in art history, including seven previously unpublished pieces. This illustrated, edited collection of essays brings together for the first time some of the pioneering art historian Linda Nochlin¿s most important writings on modernism and modernity from across her six-decade career. Before the publication of her seminal tract on feminism in art, `Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?¿, Nochlin had already firmly established herself as a major practitioner of a politically sophisticated and class-conscious social art history, with her writings on modernism being transformative to the discipline. Nochlin embraced Charles Baudelaire¿s conviction that modernity meant to be of one¿s time - and that the role of an art historian was to understand the art of the past not only in its own historical context, but according to the urgencies of the contemporary world. From academic debates about the nude in the 18th century to the
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A leading critic and historian of nineteenth-century art and society explores in nine essays the interaction of art, society, ideas, and politics.
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