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. "The Dinner Party" is profusely illustrated throughout with documentary images and new photography that displays the work in detail making this the ultimate source on an iconic work that is taught in art history and women's studies courses around the world.
- ISBN10 1858943701
- ISBN13 9781858943701
- Publish Date 23 February 2007 (first published 1 April 1979)
- Publish Status Unknown
- Out of Print 4 May 2013
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Merrell Publishers Ltd
- Edition New edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 308
- Language English