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Orange Disaster (Linda Nochlin)

Orange Disaster (Linda Nochlin)
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Artist
Deborah Kass, born 1952
Sitter
Linda Nochlin, 30 Jan 1931 - 29 Oct 2017
Date
1997
Type
Painting
Medium
Silkscreen and acrylic on canvas
Dimensions
Two panels each measuring: 304.8 × 190.5 cm (120 × 75")
Overall: 304.8 × 381 cm (120 × 150")
Object dimensions: 120 1/8 x 75 x 1 in (1 1/8 w/ the folds (d))
Topic
Costume\Dress Accessory\Scarf
Costume\Jewelry\Watch\Wrist watch
Linda Nochlin: Female
Linda Nochlin: Society and Social Change\Reformer\Feminist
Linda Nochlin: Visual Arts\Art historian
Portrait
Place
United States\New York\Cattaraugus\Brooklyn
Credit Line
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Restrictions & Rights
Usage conditions apply
Copyright
© 1997 Deborah Kass
Object number
NPG.2019.112
Exhibition Label
Orange Disaster (Linda Nochlin)
The trailblazing scholar Linda Nochlin’s (1931–2017) landmark essay “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?” (1971) details how longstanding institutional and societal structures made it “impossible for women to achieve artistic excellence, or success, on the same footing as men, no matter what the potency of their so-called talent, or genius.” Like a siren call, Nochlin’s words rocked the discipline of art history and became a foundation for the developing field of feminist studies. For this portrait, artist Deborah Kass riffed on Warhol’s Orange Car Crash (1963) from his Death and Disaster series. Kass wrote, “This would be called Orange Disaster (Linda Nochlin), because what else could you call the woman who changed art history as I and all before me had learned it? … Who, besides Linda Nochlin, struck the first and fiercest blow against the white male canon?”
El revolucionario ensayo de la académica Linda Nochlin (1931–2017), titulado “¿Por qué no ha habido grandes mujeres artistas?” (1971), explicaba que las estructuras institucionales y sociales hacían “imposible a las mujeres lograr la excelencia artística o el éxito en igualdad de condiciones que los hombres, por más que posean lo que se ha dado en llamar talento, o genio”. Como un canto de sirena, las palabras de Nochlin estremecieron el campo de la historia del arte y cimentaron el desarrollo de los estudios feministas. En su retrato, la artista Deborah Kass se inspiró en Accidente de coche en naranja (1963), de la serie Muerte y desastre de Warhol. Kass escribió: “Esto se llamaría Desastre en naranja (Linda Nochlin) porque ¿de qué otro modo llamarías a la mujer que cambió la historia del arte según la aprendimos todos hasta ahora? [...] ¿Quién, si no Linda Nochlin, lanzó el primer y más fiero golpe contra el canon del hombre blanco?”
Provenance
Deborah Kass
Data Source
National Portrait Gallery
Location
Currently not on view