APOTHEOSIS NOW: New triumphs for feminist heroine Judy Chicago; JUDY CHICAGO BOOK SIGNING

From: Santa Fe Reporter | Date: August 27, 2002| Author: Anonymous | Copyright information

With the publication of a lavishly illustrated new treatise and career review, New Mexico painter, sculptor, printmaker and installationist Judy Chicago celebrates her colorful 40-year career of feminist activism at the ramparts of contemporary art, as well as the apotheosis of her most ambitious single work, the legendary multi-media "Dinner Party" installation project, with its final acquisition by a major US art museum.

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