{"id":84,"date":"2014-09-07T19:16:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-07T19:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/07\/judy-chicago\/"},"modified":"2014-09-07T19:16:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-07T19:16:00","slug":"judy-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/judy-chicago.html","title":{"rendered":"Judy Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Several weeks ago I heard, on an early morning news show, that some young women today feel that the so-called third wave of feminism is not really relevant.  The first \u201cwave\u201d was, of course, in the 20\u2019s, the second was the 60\u2019s and 70\u2019s.  Surely, there has been great progress but there are still areas of inequality to be addressed and I spent some time reflecting upon the leaders of the feminist movement in my lifetime.<\/div>\n
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One woman I have admired throughout the decades is Judy Chicago.  Born, Judy Cohen, in 1939, she adopted the name of her home town and rose among the ranks of both the arts and the feminist movement.   As an artist, Chicago fought the images of men as artists and women as crafts-persons.  She sought to empower women to excel is all aspects of art creation and became known as a champion in “process”, by which I mean, the actual making of the art project using whatever necessary methods appropriately and with expertise.  No technique was too difficult to master, whether using automotive spray painting methods to achieve an effect or learning china painting for her famous Dinner Party installation.  If \u201cGod is in the Details\u201d (Mies van der Rohe), then Chicago\u2019s works are divine.    <\/div>\n
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Two of her installations featured vast pieces of needlework .  Probably, The Dinner Party comes to mind firstly, because of its sheer scale and well as its message (and, at times shocking presentation).  The Dinner Party was an examination of women\u2019s history.<\/div>\n
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\u201cThe Dinner Party consists of an open, triangular table, 46 \u00bd feet on each side.   The table, which is covered with fine white cloths edges in gold…. Contains thirty-nine place settings- thirteen on each of the three wings.  The number thirteen refers to the number of guests present at the Last Supper and the numbers of members in a witches\u2019 coven\u2026.Each place setting includes a fourteen inch china-painted plate\u2026a set of lustered ceramic flatware, a lustered and gold ceramic chalice, a napkin with an embroidered edge. These rest upon an embroidered runner which incorporates the needlework style and techniques of the time each woman (dinner guest) lived. ” (Embroidering Our Heritage)<\/div>\n
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Embroidering Our Heritage: The Dinner Party Needlework, Judy Chicago, Archer Press\/Doubleday, Garden City, NY, 1980<\/div>\n
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This is a very impressive reference of the project which describes in great detail Chicago’s technical drawings and their symbolism, the history of the women guests and the times they lived.  The needle techniques are illustrated and there are many photos of the finished textiles.<\/div>\n
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Begun in 1974 with the assistance of 400 artist contributors, The Dinner Party installation opened at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 1979. It now resides in the Brooklyn Museum.<\/div>\n
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Judy Chicago: The Birth Project, Doubleday, Garden City, NY, 1985<\/div>\n
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This publication reads like a journal of the project.  There are diary entries documenting each step.  There are many photos and illustrations of the needlework as well as explanations of Chicago’s textile designs.  <\/div>\n
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The second installation (rather a series of small installations) is Chicago\u2019s Birth Project, for which Chicago designed more than 150 fiber and textile works (only \u00bd were actually completed) \u201cIn the Birth Project, the content, birth, the essential female experience- fused with needlework, a traditional form of women\u2019s art.\u201d (The Birth Project)<\/div>\n
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Chicago has resided in Belen, New Mexico for thirty years and the New Mexico Museum of Art is featuring her works here in an exhibition:Local Color, Judy Chicago in New Mexico 1984-2014.<\/u> <\/div>\n
 ( through October 12, 2014)      There is an excellent biography of  Chicago in El Palacio, the publication of the Musem of New Mexico Foundation.<\/div>\n
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Cover: Peeling Back, 2000, Judy Chicago<\/div>\n
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El Palacio: Art, History, and Culture of the Southwest.Spring 2014, Vol.119\/No.1<\/div>\n
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Judy Chicago Several weeks ago I heard, on an early morning news show, that some young women today feel that the so-called third wave of feminism is not really relevant.  The first \u201cwave\u201d was, of course, in the 20\u2019s, the second was the 60\u2019s and 70\u2019s.  Surely, there has been great progress but there are…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}