Chicago's fight for deserved recognition

From: Winnipeg Free Press | Date: March 18, 2007 | Copyright information

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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 and strong opposition to a male dominated-version of art history scandalized and alienated many, even within the Feminist Art movement.

Chicago's work comes from her desire to find a way to "embody human conditions in terms of female experience," American biographer Gail Levin says in this ...

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