For several years women have been excluded systematically on art and anything major. History was mainly written by man in the public sphere, politics, war and administration. In the art sector exclusion was due to a myriad of factors.
Some of the factors were that art forms like textiles and what is called the "decorative arts" were often dismissed as craft and not "fine art".
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