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Orange Disaster (Linda Nochlin)

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Object Details

Artist

Deborah Kass, born 1952

Sitter

Linda Nochlin, 30 Jan 1931 - 29 Oct 2017

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

Credit Line

National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Date

1997

Object number

NPG.2019.112

Restrictions & Rights

Usage conditions apply

Copyright

© 1997 Deborah Kass

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))

Place

United States\New York\Cattaraugus\Brooklyn

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National Portrait Gallery Collection

Location

Currently not on view

Data Source

National Portrait Gallery

Topic

Costume\Dress Accessory\Scarf
Costume\Jewelry\Watch\Wrist watch
Linda Nochlin: Female
Linda Nochlin: Social Welfare and Reform\Reformer\Feminist
Linda Nochlin: Arts and Culture\Visual Arts\Art historian
Portrait

Metadata Usage

Usage conditions apply

Link to Original Record

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm4b1d835f0-cc6b-48a9-ac17-06fdce683272

Record ID

npg_NPG.2019.112

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