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Why Judy Chicago is the artist the art world loves to hate
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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 dodged the slings
and arrows of art critics who routinely savage her work. Her
projects have been slammed as obscene, pornographic and just plain
bad. She was once profiled as "the artist cri...
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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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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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'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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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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