Typical. You wait decades for an undiscovered genius, then hundreds appear at once. And by an astonishing coincidence, every one of them is female. After centuries of neglect and prejudice, these forgotten women are being ushered into the light by Katy Hessel’s The Story of Art Without Men, a cultural survey published last year to universal acclaim. Waterstones called it “as essential as it is enjoyable” and declared it Book of the Year. The Guardian (for whom Hessel writes a column) was particularly effusive: “this positive, beautifully written corrective,” wrote Bidisha Mamata, “… should become a founding text in the history of art by women.” No doubt it will.
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