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The Obstacle Race: The Fortune of Women Painters and Their Work World Heaitage Pub the story is peopled withIf men and women are equally capable of genius, why have there been no female artists of the stature of Leonardo, Titian or Poussin? In seeking to answer this question, Germaine Greer introduces us to major but underestimated figures in the history of Western painting Angelica Kauffmann, Natalia Goncharova, Suzanne Valadon, Berthe Morisot, Kathe Kllwitz and produces a brilliantly incisive and richly illustrated study. She explains the obstacles as