- Paperback: 240 pages
- Publisher: Penguin; Reprint edition (Oct 1993)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0140231226
- ISBN-13: 978-0140231229
- Product Dimensions: 19.3 x 12.2 x 1.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,569,632 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Through the Flower was my first book (I've since published nine others). I was inspired to write it by the writer and diarist, Anais Nin, who was a mentor to me in the early seventies. My hope was that it would aid young women artists in their development and that reading about my struggles might help them avoid some of the pitfalls that were so painful to me. I also hoped to spare them the anguish of 'reinventing the wheel", which my studies in women's history had taught me was done again and again by women, specifically because we have not had access to our foremothers' experience and achievements-one consequence of the fact that we still learn both history and art history from a male-centered bias with insufficient inclusion of women's achievements. I must admit that when I re-read Through the Flower, I winced at some of the unabashed honesty; at the same time, I am glad that my youthful self had the courage to speak so directly about my life and work. I doubt that I could recapture the candor that allowed this book to reflect such unabashed confidence that the world would accept revelations so lacking in self-consciousness. And yet, it is precisely this lack that helps give the book its flavor, the flavor of the seventies, when so many of us believed that we could change the world for the better, a goal that has been-as one of my friends put it-'mugged by reality". And yet, better an overly idealistic hope that the world could be reshaped for the better than a cynical acceptance of the status quo. At least we tried-and I'm still trying. Perhaps I'm just too old now to change. Judy Chicago 2005
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Judy Chicago is an artist, author, feminist, educator and intellectual whose career now spans over four decades. Her work and life are models for an enlarged definition of art, an expanded role for the artist, and a woman?s right to freedom of expression. Her influence both within and beyond the art community is attested to by her inclusion in hundreds of publications throughout the world. Her art has been frequently exhibited in the United States and internationally, and her ten published books have brought her art and philosophy to readers around the world. Chicago lives in Belen, New Mexico with her husband, photographer Donald Woodman and their beloved bevy of cats. For more information, explore her website, www.judychicago.com.
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This is a terrific book that demonstrates that women are able to persevere with their art even though males are trying to stop us. It seems that the white male patriarchal art world will continue to try to silence us, BUT WE WILL BE HEARD! I salute all my sisters in their struggle to produce art that, while disturbing white males, will prove that it is women who are making the most significant art in the world today. Judy Chicago has won again!
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Judy Chicago wrote Through the FLower to document how it was to be a woman artist in the 1970's: she was a student in the early 1960's and the art world was the male art world. Judy was involved in raising awareness both among women - that their art was important, that women artists had something to say which could only be said by women, and to the male-dominated world at large, that women's views mattered. She tells a story which illustrates the social mores of the time: an artist comes to visit the studio she shared with her then partner, and although he had come to see her, he wandered past her work and viewed her male partner's. That says it all.
I enjoyed reading about how she developed women's art programmes and encouraged women to take their work seriously. I remain unsure about how effective the art they produced is, as women's art, but that may be my own taste, which is for figrative rather than abstract work. As art by women and taken seriously, it is very important. This work has enabled women to move on as fine artists, and still resonates in current work b y women artists practising today. I would personally like to see other aspects of women's lives celebrated: not only menstruation, rape, and such but realise these were important to flag up at the time, as demonstrating the particular down side, fears and restrictins women have to overcome, and the horrendousness of the vulnerability of women.
I also noticed that Judy Chicago's struggles in the art world mirror my own in the literary world in so many ways. A book to encourage all creative women who wish to be taken seriously, and who battle with the need and call to be innovative in a world which often prefers existing fashion and attitudes rather than welcoming the thoughtful and new.
I enjoyed reading about how she developed women's art programmes and encouraged women to take their work seriously. I remain unsure about how effective the art they produced is, as women's art, but that may be my own taste, which is for figrative rather than abstract work. As art by women and taken seriously, it is very important. This work has enabled women to move on as fine artists, and still resonates in current work b y women artists practising today. I would personally like to see other aspects of women's lives celebrated: not only menstruation, rape, and such but realise these were important to flag up at the time, as demonstrating the particular down side, fears and restrictins women have to overcome, and the horrendousness of the vulnerability of women.
I also noticed that Judy Chicago's struggles in the art world mirror my own in the literary world in so many ways. A book to encourage all creative women who wish to be taken seriously, and who battle with the need and call to be innovative in a world which often prefers existing fashion and attitudes rather than welcoming the thoughtful and new.
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What a wonderful book this is; so inspired, so inspiring. Judy Chicago is simply brilliant. She has challenged patriarchal tyranny so courageously and insightfully that you can read this book again and again with acute pleasure.
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