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Judy Chicago's unintended horror
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HOLOCAUST PROJECT: FROM DARKNESS INTO LIGHT
By Judy Chicago with photography by Donald Woodman
At: the Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham,
through Dec. 17
WALTHAM -- Judy Chicago's "Holocaust Project" made me shudder --
not at the horror of the subject itself, but at the horror of her
exploitation of one of history's great tragedies. She is the latest
in a long string of artists who have used the Holocaust as subject;
she is certainly among ...
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An Incomplete 'Chicago' Loop (Corrected 11/6/02)
The Washington Post
; ALTHOUGH IT covers 40 decades of Judy Chicago's career (more than that if you count the childhood finger-painting, circa 1943, and two drawings from age 11 and 20 on view in a separate education room), the National Museum of Women in the Arts' "Judy Chicago" is not the comprehensive retrospective
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Why Judy Chicago is the artist the art world loves to hate
The Boston Globe
; WALTHAM -- As a young artist in the 1960s, Judy Chicago received a slice of advice from a mentor: "Just keep working." Whatever else Chicago learned during those early years, those words have most sustained her. She has kept working through fiery diatribes from the floor of the US Senate. She has
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JUDY CHICAGO
Artforum
; SANTA FE, NM JUDY CHICAGO LEWALLEN CONTEMPORARY At the very beginning of her career, Judy Chicago married Minimalism's repetition compulsion with an illusionistic approach to material and color. Considering her onenote reputation based on her feminist landmark, The Dinner Party, 1974-79, this
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BECOMING JUDY CHICAGO: A BIOGRAPHY OF THE ARTIST
Artforum
; BECOMING JUDY CHICAGO: A BIOGRAPHY OF THE ARTIST BY GAIL LEVIN NEW YORK: HARMONY. 496 PAGES. $30. Gail Levin begins her biography of Judy Chicago with a discussion of a 1970 poster in which the artist-her hair cropped and her look pugnacious-poses as a boxer, decked out in trunks, lace-up shoes,
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'All Roads Lead To Judy Chicago'
The New York Jewish Week
; Celebrated in two New York exhibits, the feminist artist is also the subject of a compelling biography that explores her Jewishness. Born in 1939, Judith Sylvia Cohen was called Yudit Spike in Yiddish by her grandmother. The woman who would become the artist Judy Chicago first signed her pieces
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Chicago's fight for deserved recognition
Winnipeg Free Press
; face=+Bold; Feminist artist scandalized male-dominated art worldface=-Bold; Becoming Judy Chicago A Biography of the Artist By Gail Levin Harmony Books, 400 pages, $38 Reviewed by Vanessa Kroeker AMERICAN artist Judy Chicago is one of Feminist Art's most recognized names. Her overt erotic imagery
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Judy Chicago/ Feminist sensibilities have long made her work controversial
The Gazette
; Judy Chicago came to the attention of America's art world with her monumental piece "The Dinner Party," a 48-foot triangular table in which each of 39 place settings pays homage to a different historic woman or goddess. This 1979 installation made Chicago the closest thing to a feminist art
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The APOLITICAL side of CHICAGO
Albuquerque Journal
; Early minimalist-style works of feminist artist form unique exhibit Whatever else you might think about the inseparably intertwined work, career and politics of Judy Chicago -- people seem to either love them or hate them -- it's hard not to thoroughly enjoy the exhibition at the LewAllen
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Judy Chicago's unintended horror
The Boston Globe
; HOLOCAUST PROJECT: FROM DARKNESS INTO LIGHT By Judy Chicago with photography by Donald Woodman At: the Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, through Dec. 17 WALTHAM -- Judy Chicago's "Holocaust Project" made me shudder -- not at the horror of the subject itself, but at the horror of her
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Judy Chicago puts her hands out for all to see
Albuquerque Journal
; Judy Chicago has always been a controversial artist. Her "Chicago in Glass" exhibition at LewAllen Contemporary is no exception. The show focuses on the human hand and explores its ability to symbolize emotional states, generosity, violence, torture, mythology and healing. The collection of
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