![]() Since some conditions that produced Western American art are different from those of the European past, it is illuminating to examine Nochlin’s argument and apply it to Western art. Her powerful essay influenced the way art history has been written in the subsequent decades, yet the issues raised by Nochlin have not yet been exhausted and continue to resurface. Nochlin asserted that instead of accepting the assumptions behind this question, we should examine the conditions and institutions necessary for the producing art and succeeding with it, such as study and apprenticeship. She pointed out a prevailing viewpoint-that art is a form of personal expression that comes forth from a genius, and thus she confronted the assumption, lurking behind the question, that women must not be capable of artistic greatness, or else some genius would have emerged. ![]() In examining the question, Nochlin revealed assumptions that governed the study of art. ![]() “Indian Artifacts, Weapons and Pipes,” after 1841. ![]()
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