The book, published by Little Brown, recounts female artists' unbending ambitions and the evolution of an economy in which their work has been undervalued.
Linda Nochlin, who died on October 29, was an intellectual of the highest order. As a scholar and teacher, Nochlin demonstrated how critical attention to art could illuminate social life.
"Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art" was a landmark exhibition at New York's Whitney Museum of American Art organized by curator Thelma Golden in 1994. Art…