Linda Nochlin obituary

Feminist art historian who touched a nerve with her 1971 article Why Have There Been No Great Woman Artists?Linda Nochlin, who has died aged 86, was one of art history’s great troublemakers. Her article Why Have There Been No Great Woman Artists?, published in Art News in 1971, is credited as a founding text of feminist art history. Mischievous, provocative and iconoclastic, Nochlin took on the powerful institutions of the art world, especially as they impacted on women.Nothing was sacred