Dinner Party: From Creation to Preservation

Chicago, Judy. Photography by Donald Woodman

ISBN 10: 1858943701 / ISBN 13: 9781858943701

Published by Merrell, London and New York, 2007

About this Item

Inscribed and signed by Judy Chicago on title page. 308 pp., color illus. Spine slightly cocked and lightly bumped at crown, light wear at heel of spine and corners of boards, edges of boards and page edges just a bit sunned, non-author gift inscription on title page below author's. Jacket shelfworn, bumped at edges and folds.

Seller Inventory # 012159

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Dinner Party: From Creation to Preservation
• Publisher: Merrell, London and New York
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1858943701
• ISBN 13: 9781858943701
• Binding: Cloth
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fine Art

About this title

Synopsis

Judy Chicago's masterpiece "The Dinner Party" is a monumental work of art conceived as a symbolic history of women in Western civilization. Strategically countering the traditional erasure of women's achievements, this epic installation honours 1038 iconic, mythical, archetypal and historical women. This, the most definitive book to be published on Chicago's masterwork, reveals more fully than ever before the art and the artist's expanded research into the rich history embodied in the installation. In lively contextualizing sections, Chicago discusses the creative genesis of "The Dinner Party", the technical processes involved, and the work's early - often hostile - reception by the art world, and its subsequent preservation and permanent exhibition. "The Dinner Party" is profusely illustrated throughout with documentary images and new photography that displays the work in detail making this the ultimate source on an iconic work that is taught in art history and women's studies courses around the world.

About the Author

Judy Chicago is a world-renowned artist, author and educator. Her major installations The Dinner Party, the Birth Project, the Holocaust Project and Resolutions have been exhibited worldwide.