What comes to mind when you picture the “Great Modernist Artist”? Perhaps a brooding Picasso in his Montmartre studio, a sharp-suited James Joyce declaiming in a Zurich cafe, or a rebellious Marcel Duchamp challenging the art world with his readymades. This iconic image of the Modernist genius is overwhelmingly, persistently male. For decades, the narrative … Continue reading The Gender of Genius: Women, Modernism, and the Fight for a Room of One’s Own