UID:
edocfu_9959234541402883
Format:
1 online resource (358 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0-8203-4568-7
Series Statement:
Since 1970: Histories of contemporary America
Content:
Judy Chicago's monumental art installation The Dinner Party was an immediate sensation when it debuted in 1979, and today it is considered the most popular work of art to emerge from the second-wave feminist movement. Jane F. Gerhard examines the piece's popularity to understand how ideas about feminism migrated from activist and intellectual circles into the American mainstream in the last three decades of the twentieth century. More than most social movements, feminism was transmitted and understood through culture-art installations, Ms. Magazine , All in the Family , and thousands of other
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION: Toward a Cultural History of The Dinner Party; ONE: Making Feminist Artists: The Feminist Art Programs of Fresno and CalArts, 1970-1972; TWO: Making Feminist Art: Womanhouse and the Feminist Art Movement, 1972-1974; THREE: The Studio as a Feminist Space: Practicing Feminism at The Dinner Party, 1975-1979; FOUR: Joining Forces: Making Art and History at The Dinner Party, 1975-1979; FIVE: Going Public: The Dinner Party in San Francisco, 1979; SIX: The Tour That Very Nearly Wasn't: The Dinner Party's Alternative Showings, 1980-1983
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SEVEN: Debating Feminist Art: The Dinner Party in Published and Unpublished Commentary, 1979-1989EIGHT: From Controversy to Canonization: The Dinner Party in the Culture Wars, 1990-2007; EPILOGUE: A Prehistory of Postfeminism; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8203-3675-0
Language:
English
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