Judy Chicago
Author
Publisher
Thames & Hudson Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In this provocative and resonant autobiography, world-renowned artist and feminist icon Judy Chicago reflects on her extraordinary life and career. 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...
Author
Publisher
The Monacelli Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"The official publication celebrating Judy Chicago's feminist art masterpiece, The Dinner Party installation at the Brooklyn Museum [Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art], and an introduction to outstanding women in history. Judy Chicago's book 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...
Author
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
"When Judy Chicago's multimedia exhibit The Dinner Party opened in the late 1970s, it was almost as shocking to the art world and to society at large as the first exhibit of Impressionists nearly a century before. And like that art, it stretched the limits of artistic vision and expression, soon becoming a landmark in art history. In this new work, the artist takes you on a personal tour of The Dinner Party, discussing it genesis, aesthetic and historical...
Author
Publisher
Institute of Contemporary Art
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Groundbreaking and provocative, Judy Chicago's iconic sculptures, paintings, and installations helped bridge the gap between feminism and art during the 1960s, 70s, and beyond. Using imagery inspired by the female body and references to historical female figures, Chicago forged a new, women-focused visual language that continues to influence the aesthetics of feminist art today. This book traces Chicago's career from her emergence on the Los Angeles...
Publisher
Scala Arts Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
As the first major monograph on the feminist artist Judy Chicago in nineteen years, this fully illustrated volume provides fresh perspectives by leading scholars. Many people know her famed The Dinner Party, installed as the centrepiece of the Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum, but few know her other prescient bodies of work - on sex, birth, death, violence, the natural world, and more. Featuring her newest work, The End, as well...
Author
Publisher
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Accompanying the first exhibition to offer a thorough overview of Judy Chicago's career. It traces the pioneering feminist 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...