"The dinner party" revisited: with the Brooklyn Museum's acquisition of Judy Chicago's 1970s feminist icon, the author gives the piece a new critical look. (Art & Politics II).(Critical Essay)

From: Art in America | Date: May 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

It's not yet 30 years since Judy Chicago started working--alone--on The Dinner Party, a monumental labor that came to involve 400 people producing a symbolic representation of the history of significant women in Western civilization. (1) How times have changed! The Dinner Party, which initially met with an unenthusiastic artworld reception and hostility from Congress, has become an icon of feminist art. The work was recently on view at the Brooklyn Museum of Art (BMA), where it has at last found a home through trustee Elizabeth Sackler's purchase and donation. Beginning in 2004, ...

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