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The word artist means man unless qualified by the category woman.

The word "artist" means man unless qualified by the category "woman.

Whitney Chadwick
Mean, Artist, Men
Whitney Chadwick (2007). “Women, Art, and Society”

Economically, legally, and politically powerless throughout much of western history, women have been linked to nature and the unknowable through metaphors of the body while the masculine has signified culture and mental activity.

Whitney Chadwick
Art, Culture, Body

Attempts to juggle domestic responsibilities with artistic production have often resulted in smaller bodies of work, and often works smaller in scale, than those produced by male contemporaries. Yet art history continues to privilege prodigious output and monumental scale or conception over the selective and the intimate.

Whitney Chadwick
Art, Responsibility, Privilege
Whitney Chadwick (2007). “Women, Art, and Society”

The bizarre but all too common transformation of the woman artist from a producer in her own right into a subject for representation forms a leitmotif in the history of art. Confounding subject and object, it undermines the speaking position of the individual woman artist by generalizing her. Denied her individuality, she is displaced from being a producer and becomes instead a sign for male creativity.

Whitney Chadwick
Art, Creativity, Individuality
Whitney Chadwick (2007). “Women, Art, and Society”

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