Judy Chicago, The Dinner Party, 1974 – 1979 emphasis on the female anatomy monumental dinner table; each side of the triangle is 48 feet, with 13 place settings for a total of 39 important women in history collaboration between artists from CalArts in media that had traditionally not been recognized as fine arts, such as fiber, ceramics, and metalworking  each place setting tailored to the style of art in which each of these women lived, and each plate is an abstraction of a vagina  example of second wave feminist art

Judy Chicago, The Dinner Party, 1974 – 1979

  • emphasis on the female anatomy
  • monumental dinner table; each side of the triangle is 48 feet, with 13 place settings for a total of 39 important women in history
  • collaboration between artists from CalArts in media that had traditionally not been recognized as fine arts, such as fiber, ceramics, and metalworking 
  • each place setting tailored to the style of art in which each of these women lived, and each plate is an abstraction of a vagina 
  • example of second wave feminist art
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during my first ever survey of western art class, my professor explained the difference between historians and art historians. historians, she said, were interested in old things. art historians, on the other hand, were interested in old things of quality. you don't hang garbage up on the walls of a museum; it has to be substantial and it has to mean something. so here you go; old things, made mostly by dudes long dead, of debatable degrees of quality but always with a constant level of importance. think of this as a deck of flash cards... sans the whole cards part.

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