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The Dinner Party - Judy Chicago and the Power of Popular Feminism, 1970-2007 (Hardcover, New)
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The Dinner Party - Judy Chicago and the Power of Popular Feminism, 1970-2007 (Hardcover, New)
Series: Since 1970: Histories of Contemporary America
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Judy Chicago's monumental art installation "The Dinner Party "was
an immediate sensation when it debuted in 1979, and today it is
considered the most popular work of art to emerge from the
second-wave feminist movement. Jane F. Gerhard examines the piece's
popularity to understand how ideas about feminism migrated from
activist and intellectual circles into the American mainstream in
the last three decades of the twentieth century.
More than most social movements, feminism was transmitted and
understood through culture--art installations, "Ms. Magazine," "All
in the Family," and thousands of other cultural artifacts. But the
phenomenon of cultural feminism came under extraordinary criticism
in the late 1970s and 1980s Gerhard analyzes these divisions over
whether cultural feminism was sufficiently activist in light of the
shifting line separating liberalism from radicalism in post-1970s
America. She concludes with a chapter on the 1990s, when "The
Dinner Party" emerged as a target in political struggles over
public funding for the arts, even as academic feminists denounced
the piece for its alleged essentialism.
The path that" The Dinner Party" traveled--from inception (1973) to
completion (1979) to tour (1979-1989) to the permanent collection
of the Brooklyn Museum (2007)--sheds light on the history of
American feminism since 1970 and on the ways popular feminism in
particular can illuminate important trends and transformations in
the broader culture.
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