Women artists
Despite or perhaps because of the influence of "History of Art", it came under increased scrutiny by art historians, who sought a more inclusive story of Western art. According to feminist art historians Norma Broude and Mary Garrard: "Women artists in the 1950s and 1960s suffered professional isolation not only from one another, but also from their own history, in an era when women artists of the past had been virtually written out of the history of art, H.W. Janson's influential textbook, "History of Art", first published in 1962, contained neither the name nor the work of a single woman artist. In thus excluding women from the history of art (...)."