“The word "artist" means man unless qualified by the category "woman.” MenMeanArtistCategoriesQualifiedMean Man Book:Women, Art, and Society Source: 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.” ArtFormArtistIndividualCommonCreativitySubjectsPositionObjectsTransformationMalesIndividualityProducersDeniedRepresentationBizarreWoman ArtistConfounding Book:Women, Art, and Society Source: Women, Art, and Society