Katy Hessel is an art historian and the author of The Story of Art without Men, the international bestseller and Waterstones Book of the Year 2022, which is now being adapted into an illustrated children's book for publication in 2026. Her second book for adults, How to Live an Artful Life, was published in 2025. She runs @thegreatwomenartists on Instagram, hosts The Great Women Artists Podcast and is a columnist for the Guardian. Hessel is a Visiting Fellow at Cambridge University and a Trustee of Charleston. In 2024, she launched Museums Without Men, an audio series highlighting works by women artists in museum collections worldwide, such as The Met and Tate Britain.
Katy Hessel is a brilliant chronicler of the overlooked. I am so
thrilled this book exists as an empowering, enlightening guide to
the unforgettable vision of these brilliant artists. Essential
reading
*Elizabeth Day*
An inspiring, beautifully written corrective
*Observer*
Will change the history of art... thank God.
*Tracey Emin*
Excellent, authoritative, exuberant and elegantly written
*Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of STALIN: THE COURT OF THE RED
TSAR*
I was not aware how hungry I was for this book until I dropped
everything and ate it from cover to cover. I was not aware how
angry I was that this book did not exist until it existed. It's an
urgently needed, un-put-downable, joyful, insightful, glorious,
perspective-shifting revision of the Story of Art.
*Es Devlin*
A book for every aspiring art historian - whatever their sex
*The Times*
A long overdue, revisionist history of art by the brilliant Katy
Hessel ... Never stuffy or supercilious, Hessel's book is a
revelation and an important first step towards redressing the
balance of an art world in which women have been sidelined, stepped
over and trampled upon for far too long
*Refinery29*
An extraordinary achievement that will have a disruptive cultural
legacy and help determine the landscape for years to come.
*Harper's Bazaar*
Well-researched and enlightening
*Daily Express*
Unapologetically revisionist
*Financial Times*
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