As a curator, Nochlin co-organized such exhibitions as “Women Artists: 1550–1950” (1976) at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and “Global Feminisms” (2007) at the Brooklyn Museum, landmark surveys that cemented the place of feminist politics in top-tier institutions. She made major contributions to the study of realism, the focus of her 1963 dissertation on Gustave Courbet, and nineteenth-century art remained a primary interest throughout her career, which included academic posts at Vassar College, the Graduate Center at the City University of New York, Yale University, and New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts. More than expanding the canon of art history to include women artists and artists of color-though she was certainly instrumental in that regard-Nochlin revealed the ideological underpinnings of any process of canonization. As a scholar and teacher, Nochlin demonstrated how critical attention to art could illuminate social life. LINDA NOCHLIN, who died on October 29, was an intellectual of the highest order.
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