As her trailblazing book is published, KatyHessel talks to violet__conroy about the impetus behind her popular Instagram account thegreatwomenartists, breaking down the elitism of art history, and why books still have power
That’s also why I went down the journalism route rather than doing a master’s, because
“I wanted to write something that would be read by the masses. I don’t care where people get their art knowledge from” – Katy HesselWhy Have There Been No Great Women Artists?KH: Well, I think the Instagram [@thegreatwomenartists] wouldn’t have existed without that essay because she wrote this at the dawn of the feminist movement and it changed everything.
I always loved bloggers, so I was a massive fan of Tavi Gevinson when I was a kid. What I loved about her was that she made fashion accessible.and I loved how it was born on the internet as well as being a magazine. I just think the internet is this amazing, weird place, but it also has amazing corners and amazing communities.
It baffles me as to why women have been left out of the canon. Either it was a conscious decision or they were just ignorant and lazy. I’m not also trying to claim this is a definitive art historical book, because I think that so many people can write similar things. I’d love to read the history of literature without men, for example.VC: Speaking of history, you write in the introduction that this is not a definitive history since that would be an impossible task.
VC: Do you think in your lifetime that we’ll get to a place where women artists will finally be treated equally? And what kind of things need to change to make that happen?
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