《女性艺术家们：琳达•诺克林的读者》汇集了Nochlin整个职业生涯中的30篇重要随笔，其中有2篇专门为此系列撰写。本书以Nochlin的一篇访谈开篇，在访谈中，她回顾了自己一生的作品，认真思考了当今女性艺术家的地位。她的主要主题文章，例如《法国大革命后的女性艺术家》和《从零开始：女权主义艺术史的开端》，与具有里程碑意义的1971年随笔及其回答，《为什么没有伟大的女艺术家？：三十年后》放在一起。同样被收录的还有关于一系列重要女性艺术家——例如玛丽•卡萨特，路易丝•布尔乔瓦，塞西莉•布朗，奇奇•史密斯，米瓦•柳吉和索菲•卡勒——的文章，以及书中讨论的所有艺术家的简明传记和一份Nochlin出版物的完整书目。

Linda Nochlin (1931 2017) was one of the most pioneering and provocative art historians of our time. In 1971 she published her groundbreaking article, Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? , an impassioned feminist rallying cry that called traditional art historical practices into question and led to a major revision of the discipline.

Women Artists: The Linda Nochlin Reader brings together thirty essential essays from throughout Nochlin s career, including two written specially for this collection. The book opens with an interview with Nochlin, in which she looks back on her life s work and reflects on the position of women artists today. Her major thematic texts, such as Women Artists After the French Revolution and Starting from Scratch: The Beginnings of Feminist Art History appear alongside the landmark 1971 essay and its rejoinder, Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? : Thirty Years After. Also included are entries focusing on a selection of major women artists, such as Mary Cassatt, Louise Bourgeois, Cecily Brown, Kiki Smith, Miwa Yanagi and Sophie Calle, as well as concise biographies of all the artists discussed in the book and a complete bibliography of Nochlin s publications.