Practice question · Put in order
Arrange these contributions in order of publication.
- Clark, The Nude (1956)
- Nochlin asks why there have been no great women artists (1971)
- Berger, Ways of Seeing (1972)
- Mulvey on visual pleasure and narrative cinema (1975)
- Burke on the sublime (1757)
Hints
- The eighteenth-century text comes first by two centuries.
- Nochlin, Berger and Mulvey fall within four years of each other.
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- Burke on the sublime (1757)
- Clark, The Nude (1956)
- Nochlin asks why there have been no great women artists (1971)
- Berger, Ways of Seeing (1972)
- Mulvey on visual pleasure and narrative cinema (1975)
Why
The compression at the end is the point: Nochlin, Berger and Mulvey appear within four years, and between them reframed who art history is about, who it is addressed to, and how the address works. Few disciplines change their central questions that fast.
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