The flowering : the autobiography of Judy Chicago / [foreword by Gloria Steinem].

"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 t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Chicago, Judy, 1939- (Author)
Other Authors: Steinem, Gloria (writer of foreword.)
Language:English
Published: New York, New York : London : Thames & Hudson Inc. ; Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2021.
Subjects:
Chicago, Judy, > 1939-
Women artists > United States > Biography.
Artists > United States > Biography.
Feminists > United States > Biography.
ART / General.
Artists.
Feminists.
Women artists.
United States.
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Genre:
Biography.
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Physical Description:vii, 408 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 25 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Foreword / by Gloria Steinem
  • Introduction
  • Coming of age
  • Making a professional life
  • Becoming Judy Chicago
  • Creating feminist art
  • Learning from the past
  • Back to L.A. and Womanhouse
  • Dreaming up The Dinner Party
  • Controversy? What controversy?
  • Giving birth to the Birth project
  • Is there an alternative to the art world?
  • Expanding my gaze
  • If you don't have, you can't lose
  • Why the Holocaust?
  • The Dinner Party goes to Congress
  • Lost in Albuquerque! Found in Belen?
  • Afterword.