The dinner party : restoring women to history

The dinner party Restoring women to history

Judy Chicago, 1939-

Book - 2014

"The official publication celebrating Judy Chicago's feminist art masterpiece ... and an introduction to outstanding women in history. Judy Chicago's The Dinner Party is a defining work of feminist and contemporary art that brought women's history to light on the national stage when it was completed in 1979. Published to coincide with Chicago's 75th birthday and a nationwide series of events and exhibitions, the book features newly commissioned photography and two new essays by Chicago, along with essays by art historian Fraces Borzello and historian Jane Gerhard, and a foreword from museum director Arnold Lehman"--Publisher's website.

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Subjects
Chicago, Judy, > 1939- > Dinner party.
Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art.
Installations (Art).
Women in art.
Published
New York : The Monacelli Press c2014.
Language
English
Main Author
Judy Chicago, 1939- (artist)
Other Authors
Frances Borzello (author), Jane F. Gerhard
Physical Description
287 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 276-277) and index.
ISBN
9781580933896
  • The Brooklyn Museum and the Dinner Party / Arnold L. Lehman
  • Restoring women to history / Judy Chicago
  • From Judy Chicago to Judy Chicago / Judy Chicago
  • An art history sit-in: The Dinner Party in its artistic context / Frances Borzello
  • From controversy to canonization: The Dinner Party's journey to Brooklyn / Jane F. Gerhard.
Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

When noted feminist artist Chicago was an undergrad, one of her history professors declared: "Women's contributions to European intellectual history? They made none." As she explains in the introduction to the first book to represent her groundbreaking mixed-media installation "The Dinner Party" (1974-79), this comment inspired her to create an alternative history of women's cultural, political, and scholarly achievements. Consisting of 39 handmade place settings, celebrating notable women from the primordial goddess to Georgia O'Keefe, the installation has been permanent housed in the Brooklyn Museum's Sackler Center for Feminist Art since 2007. Chicago describes the work's genesis, evolution, its collective nature, problematic exhibition history, and public impact. Organized to mirror the exhibition, each section is divided into four chronological wings, rather than chapters, and includes a short description of the woman represented and a photograph of her plate and place setting. Surrounding the photographs are summaries of the other women whose 999 names are inscribed on the ceramic tile floor ("Heritage Floor") on which the triangular table rests. Many of the plates photograph well, particularly those for Sappho and Virginia Woolf, and handmade runners are spectacular. In this volume, published to coincide with her 75th birthday and including a foreword by Brooklyn Museum director Arnold L. Lehman, and essays by Frances Borzello and Jane F. Gerhard, Chicago offers a vibrant visual and textual encyclopedia of female achievement. 100 color illus. (Apr.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

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