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Carefully, thoroughly and vividly educates in all the ways Chicago intended three decades ago - SELVEDGE Sumptuous - CERAMIC REVIEW
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Judy Chicago's masterpiece The Dinner Party is a monumental work of art conceived as a symbolic history of women in Western civilization. Strategically countering the traditional erasure of women's achievements, this epic installation honours 1038 iconic, mythical, archetypal and historical women. This, the most definitive book to be published on Chicago's masterwork, reveals more fully than ever before the art and the artist's expanded research into the rich history embodied in the installation. In lively contextualizing sections, Chicago discusses the creative genesis of The Dinner Party, the technical processes involved, and the work's early-often hostile-reception by the art world, and its subsequent preservation and permanent exhibition
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I bought The Dinner Party because it is simply the best resource available on the history of women's achievements through the centuries. Not many books provide biographies of 999 women outstanding in their field, whether history, art, medicine or science, and not many books show how a huge installation such as the Dinner Party has been consistently ignored by the art world, to the extent that it took Judy Chicago many years to get it a permanent home and the beginnings of the recognition it deserves. The descriptions and photos of the craft techniques are superb and inspiring, and the research has probably never been bettered - and it is important to bear in mind the fact that the historical research was begun in the late 1960s when 'women's studies' was barely a gleam in the eye of academic departments in the USA: primary sources were therefore hard to locate and harder to access. The Dinner Party is therefore one of the most important sources of information on the history of women.
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I saw this exhibition some years ago and was impressed by how original, provocative and artistic it was. I'd seen no exhibition like it and the subject matter was fascinating. It was also not surprising that the ceramics generated both admiration and some unease. At that time I could find little information on the hundreds of dedicated women depicted in the table settings or named on the floor. This book is exactly what I was hoping for, with excellent photos of the exhibits, fascinating accounts of the preparation and construction, and also enough bigraphical data on the women to begin further studies.
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An excellent, illustrated guide to the art of Judy Chicago.
19 May 2007
Format:Hardcover
The Dinner Party: From Creation to Reservation offers up an excellent, illustrated guide to the art of Judy Chicago. All other books documenting her DINNER PARTY are all out of print, but even when they were available, none offered such an extensive, full-color treatment as does THE DINNER PARTY: FROM CREATION TO RESERVATION. Documentary photos follow its creation and an essay by Judy Chicago surveys the history of women, the collaborative effort involved, and the history of the work's exhibition. Perfect for college-level art libraries; especially those with some works on Judy Chicago already in their holdings.
Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch
Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
I love this book!
2 Nov 2008
Format:Hardcover
I love judy chicago's dinner party. The art is organic and really fits the different representations of the women she is trying to portray. This book has pictures of the plates, as well as the individual runners for the plates. It also has information about the 999 women who's names form the dinner party. Not everyone has a plate, but there is a little bio about them. I really like to pull this book out for inspiration and information about the women represented in this book. It's a great art book that really illustrates this piece, since I may never see it in person.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Awesome
18 April 2010
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A most unusual book! In addition to the originality of Judy Chicago's art, you have the refreshing words and thoughts of nearly a thousand great women of history.
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