![]() ![]() ![]() Naturally, when you boil a historic, lengthy feminist essay down to a hundred-something-dollar designer slogan T-shirt, there are going to be reactions. Thus the question of women’s equality-in art as in any other realm-devolves not upon the relative benevolence or ill-will of individual men, nor the self-confidence or abjectness of individual women, but rather on the very nature of our institutional structures themselves and the view of reality which they impose on the human beings who are part of them. Nochlin’s essay interrogates every angle of the question, opening it up beyond gender to issues of race and class as well. If you read Nochlin’s text, you’ll gather that she poses this question not necessarily because she believes it to be true, but rather to challenge the assumptions behind it and the reactions to it - both by feminists who counter by naming female artists and misogynists who believe “women are incapable of greatness.” According to Nochlin’s granddaughter, Julia Trotta, the French fashion house reached out a few months ago to collaborate. It was a question first asked in 1971 by the American art historian Linda Nochlin, whose original essay of the same title was printed in pamphlets for the Paris Fashion Week crowd to take home in their shoulder bags. On Tuesday afternoon in Paris, the Dior spring 2018 show opened with a graphic T-shirt that read, in all caps: “WHY HAVE THERE BEEN NO GREAT WOMEN ARTISTS?” ![]() ![]() Photo: Victor VIRGILE/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images ![]()
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