ThemostcomprehensivesurveytodateofthelegendaryfeministartistJudyChicagoOneofthemostimportantcontemporaryAmericanartists,JudyChicagoisknownformultimediaworksthatembraceanexplicitlyfeministmethodology.AccompanyingamajorretrospectiveattheNewMuseum,thisbookshowcasesChicago’stremendousimpactonAmericanartandpresentsthefullbreadthofhercareeracrossinstallation,sculpture,drawing,textiles,photography,stainedglass,andprintmaking.FeaturinganextensiveselectioncuratedbyChicagoofworksbywomenartistsacrosshistory,thebookalsohighlightshercriticalroleasanactivistandculturalhistorianwhohasreshapedthecanon.ThisdedicatedsectionfeaturesChicago’s’personalmuseum’ofwomenartistsandhistoricalfigureswhomshehasplacedwithinherownalternativecanon,includingHilmaafKlint,SimonedeBeauvoir,LeonoraCarrington,ElizabethCatlett,EmilyDickinson,BarbaraHepworth,FridaKahlo,GeorgiaO’Keeffe,VirginiaWoolf,andmanyothers.Thebookpresentsworksfromacrosshersixty-yearcareer,fromherexperimentswithMinimalismtoherrevolutionaryfeministartworksandherlaterworksonthemesofsocialinequity,environmentalism,andtheconstructionofmasculinity.
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