1971年1月,艺术史学家LindaNochlin发表了名为《为什么没有伟大女艺术家?》的论文,对女性艺术家过去和当时的地位作了引起争议的长篇大论。文章以此开头:“我很诚恳地说出我的困惑:虽然男女差不多平等了很多年了,在视觉艺术领域女性没有取得重大成就,没有相当于米开朗基罗、伦勃朗、德拉克洛瓦、塞尚、毕加索或马蒂斯,还有近代的德·库宁或沃霍尔的女性艺术家。” In January 1971, art historian Linda Nochlin published a dissertation entitled “Why There is no Great Female Artist?”, Controversially long story about the past and present status of female artists. The article begins with: “I was very sincere about my confusion: although women and men have been on equal footing for many years, women have achieved no major accomplishments in the field of visual arts and do not have the equivalent of Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Delacroix Watts, Cezanne, Pablo Picasso, or Matisse, as well as modern German women artists de Kooning or Warhol. ”