Sick of her friends getting nowhere, she co-founded The Women in the Arts Foundation and they protested across New York. Ahead of a UK show, Roser talks about escaping wartime Shanghai \u2013 and still painting three a day<\/p>\n
In January of 1971, the American art historian Linda Nochlin published a landmark essay, Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?<\/a> It was a provocation and a call to arms that was to send shockwaves through the arts establishment.<\/p>\n \u201cIt wasn\u2019t just a problem for artists,\u201d says Ce Roser, more than half a century on. \u201cMy older friends could not get shows, although they had had brilliant careers before, and that happened also to all of my friends who were poets or writers. Nobody seemed to be able to establish themselves as career artists. So we got together, we complained, and I decided we should have a meeting and really talk seriously about it.\u201d<\/p>\n
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