,', there are no great women artists just as there have not been not been any great Lithuanian jazz pianists, nor Eskimo tennis players either. The fault lies not in our hormones, our menstrual cycles, etc, but in our institutions and our education, from the moment we enter this world of meaningful symbols, signs and signals. in actuality the arts, as a hundred other areas, are oppressive and discouraging to all those, women among them, who did not have the good fortune to be born white, preferably middle class and, above all, male. What it is = conventions, schemata or systems of notation, which have to be learned or worked out, either through teaching, apprenticeship or a long period of individual experimentation. Art is almost never that, great art never is. The problem isn't the feminists' concept of what femininity is, but rather with their misconception (shared with the public at large) of what art is: with the naïve idea that art is the direct, personal expression of individual emotional experience, a translation of personal life into visual terms.
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