Foundational Critical Framework

The theoretical and methodological foundations of this project draw on a critical genealogy that includes, among others:

• Linda Nochlin, Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? (1971)
• Griselda Pollock, Vision and Difference: Feminism, Femininity and the Histories of Art
• Whitney Chadwick, Women, Art, and Society
• Mary D. Garrard, works on attribution and Artemisia Gentileschi
• Rozsika Parker, The Subversive Stitch: Embroidery and the Making of the Feminine

This is presented as a critical apparatus underlying the project’s method, not as an index of its contents.

Open Resources & Kindred Archives

Independent databases, archives and institutions engaged in related research, offered here as resources for the public regardless of this project:

• AWARE – Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions (Paris, founded 2014). An open-access index of women artists from the 16th to the 21st century. awarewomenartists.com
• National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA), Washington DC. The Betty Boyd Dettre Library and Research Center holds the Archives of Women Artists and the Clara database, cataloguing over 18,000 women artists. nmwa.org
• Advancing Women Artists (AWA), Florence. A nonprofit devoted to identifying and restoring works by women held in Italian museum storerooms, and co-developer of the A Space of Their Own database (15th–19th century). [advancingwomenartists.org]
• Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum. Permanent home of Judy Chicago’s The Dinner Party, with the Feminist Art Base, an online archive of feminist art from the 1960s to the present.
• WOPHA – Women Photographers International Archive. Founded by Aldeide Delgado, dedicated to women and non-binary practitioners in photography, with a global scope beyond its original Cuban focus.
• n.paradoxa, international feminist art journal (KT Press), and its companion list of feminist art archives and libraries worldwide.
• White Columns, New York — Women of the World: A Global Collection of Art (exhibition). whitecolumns.org
• AWARE Magazine on the historical exhibitions organised by the International Federation of Business and Professional Women. awarewomenartists.com