Maria’s Reviews > The Mirror and the Palette: Rebellion, Revolution, and Resilience—500 Years of Women's Self-Portraits > Status Update

something strange happened in the twentieth century: that a focus on the achievements of women artists dwindled just when women were beginning to practise art in far greater numbers than they ever had before.
[…] most popular art-history textbooks of the twentieth century: Gombrich’s Story of Art (1961) and Janson’s History of Art (1962). In their first editions neither of them mentions a single woman artist.