page_title: Women in the art history field
hierarchical_section_title: Women in the art history field
context_page_description: Women were professionally active in the academic discipline of art history already in the nineteenth century and participated in the important shift early in the century that began involving an "emphatically corporeal visual subject", with Vernon Lee as a notable example. It is argued that in the twentieth century women art historians, by choosing to study women artists, "dramatically" "increased their visibility". In fact, women art historians are one of two groups "who say there have been great women artists" in the first place, according to the authors of a study of the representations of women artists in US textbooks.
context_section_description: Women were professionally active in the academic discipline of art history already in the nineteenth century and participated in the important shift early in the century that began involving an "emphatically corporeal visual subject", with Vernon Lee as a notable example. It is argued that in the twentieth century women art historians (and curators), by choosing to study women artists, "dramatically" "increased their visibility". In fact, women art historians are one of two groups (besides authors of high-school texbooks) "who say there have been great women artists" in the first place, according to the authors of a study of the representations of women artists in US textbooks.
caption: Elderly Lady (circa 1740), painting by Rosalba Carriera
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