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Judy Chicago-isms
Judy Chicago; Edited by Larry Warsh
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A collection of inspiring and provocative quotations from
pioneering artist, feminist, and activist Judy Chicago A fierce
activist for women’s rights and against climate change, Judy
Chicago defines herself best: “I’m Judy Chicago, and I’m an
artist and a troublemaker.” A leader of the Women’s Art
Movement of the 1970s, Chicago also founded the first feminist art
program in the United States. She is renowned for her monumental
installation The Dinner Party (1974–1979), an iconic work that
celebrates female luminaries from history and mythology, including
Georgia O’Keefe, Emily Dickinson, Sojourner Truth, and
Hatshepsut. Gathered from interviews and other sources, Judy
Chicago-isms is an inspiring collection of the memorable and
powerful words of a trailblazing artist. “You don’t have to be
a man to support a patriarchal worldview, and you don’t have to
be a woman to support feminist values.” “You have to choose
hope. Hope comes from feeling that you’re on the side of right
and fighting for it. If you’re a passive observer to what’s
going on, it’s easy to give in to despair.” “Feminist art is
all the stages of a woman giving birth to herself.” “[Women]
should get fifty percent of the space in all institutions. That is
what our mandate has to be.”
Judy Chicago is America's most dynamic living artist. Her works
comprise a dizzying array of media from performance and
installation to the glittering table laid for thirty- nine iconic
women in The Dinner Party (now permanently housed at the Brooklyn
Museum), the groundbreaking Birth Project, and the meticulously
researched Holocaust Project. She designed the monumental
installation for Dior's 2020 Paris couture show and, in 2019,
established the Judy Chicago Portal, which will help to accomplish
her lifelong goal of overcoming the erasure that has eclipsed the
achievements of so many women. The Flowering is her vivid and
revealing autobiography, fully illustrated with photographs of her
work, as well as never-before-published personal images and a
foreword by Gloria Steinem. Chicago has revised and updated her
earlier, classic works with previously untold stories, fresh
insights, and an extensive afterword covering the last twenty
years. This powerful narrative weaves together the stories behind
some of Chicago's most significant artworks and her journey as a
woman artist with the chronicles of her personal relationships and
her understanding, from decades of experience and extensive
research, of how misogyny, racism and other prejudices intersect to
erase the legacies of artists who are not white and male while
dismissing the suffering of millions of creatures who share the
planet. With the first career retrospective of her work forthcoming
at the de Young Museum in 2021, Chicago reinforces her message of
resilience for a new generation of artists and activists. The
Flowering is an essential read for anyone interested in making
change. With 90 illustrations in colour
One of the founding forces behind the 1970s feminist art movement,
Judy Chicago became widely known for The Dinner Party, a massive
installation turning women's traditional household-bound role on
its head by setting a feast for thirty-nine remarkable women - from
Hildegarde of Bingen to Emily Dickinson - to shine a spotlight on
women's contributions to history. Concluded in 1979, it was
presented in San Francisco to popular success and proceeded to be
shown internationally to an audience of over one million viewers
through an unprecedented grassroots effort. Art critics, however,
responded differently, annihilating it for its celebration of
vaginal imagery and embrace of 'feminine' craft. For decades
Chicago operated on the margins of the art world, her work shunned
by most critics and institutions and her evolution as an artist
eclipsed by the notoriety of The Dinner Party. Judy Chicago: In the
Making accompanies the first exhibition to offer a thorough
overview of Chicago's career. It traces the artist's practice back
to its roots, revealing her unique working process and the origins
of the formal and conceptual strategies she has applied throughout
her oeuvre. Bringing together a selection drawn from every major
series of her work, it also reproduces sketchbooks, journals and
preparatory drawings that document her extensive process of
research and development. With 225 illustrations in colour
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