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'Judy From Chicago'; CHICAGO LIT A new biography tells how the former Judy Cohen's roots in the Windy City gave her much more than a name
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BIOGRAPHY
Becoming Judy Chicago
By Gail Levin
Crown, 463 pages, $29.95
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Her career as one of America's leading feminist artists was built
primarily in California and the Southwest, but Judy Chicago would
obviously never have taken that name -- she grew up as Judy Cohen,
and had later taken her first husband's surname, Gerowitz -- if she
hadn't been from the Windy City. The regulars on the California art
scene knew her as "Judy from Chicago," in...
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