![]() ![]() In asking the question of why there haven't been great Vietnamese artists, I am essentially asking how art history accounts for Vietnamese art. ![]() The process of identifying and locating art from a place like Vietnam that rarely figures in art history tells us something about how art history is written. Similarly, artists from peripheral loci of art production-that is, outside the Western art market centers in places such as Vietnam-often "exist" or are known only because Western galleries, art auction houses, or even art historians have situated them. The title of this essay is a reference to Linda Nochlin's seminal 1971 article "Why Have There Been no Great Women Artists." Nochlin argues not that women are incapable of being great artists but rather that men essentially control the processes by which artists become famous. ![]() Hanoi School of Fine Arts, founded in 1925, where most artists in Vietnam have trained. ![]()
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