JUDY CHICAGO: The Dinner Party 1982

Written on January 12, 2022. Posted in ALL POSTS, ARTS, EDUCATION, CULTURE, CONSIDER THIS.

This featured plate is titled “Sacajawea.”

The Dinner Party is an installation artwork by feminist artist Judy Chicago. Widely regarded as the first epic feminist artwork, it functions as a symbolic history of women in civilization.

There are 39 elaborate place settings on a triangular table for 39 mythical and historical famous women. Sacajawea, Sojourner Truth, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Empress Theodora of Byzantium, Virginia Woolf, Susan B. Anthony, and Georgia O’Keeffe are among the symbolic guests.

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