Sexual politics :  Judy Chicago's Dinner party in feminist art history / 
Amelia Jones, editor ; with essays by Laura Cottingham [and others]. 
 - 264 pages :  illustrations (some colour) ;  32 cm 
<br/><br/> Includes index.  "Published with the assistance of the Getty Grant Program.".  Published on the occasion of an exhibition of the same title organized by UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles, California, April 24-August 18, 1996. 
<br/><br/> Foreword --  Acknowledgments --  Lenders to the Exhibition --  Plates --  Sexual Politics: Feminist Strategies, Feminist Conflicts, Feminist Histories --  From Finish Fetish to Feminism: Judy Chicago's Dinner Party in California Art History --  The "Sexual Politics" of The Dinner Party: A Critical Context --  Identifying with Judy Chicago --  Rereading the Readings of The Dinner Party in Europe --  Beneath the Green Veil: The Body in/of New Feminist Art --  Eating from the Dinner Party Plates and Other Myths, Metaphors, and Moments of Lesbian Enunciation in Feminism and Its Art Movement --  A Feminist Chronology, 1945-95 --  Checklist of the Exhibition --  Index. 
<br/><br/> Within the politically charged debates of the feminist art movement, Judy Chicago's Dinner Party has been a focal point of controversy. A monumental table in the form of an equilateral triangle, The Dinner Party honors 1,038 women in Western history, 39 if whom are represented at the table itself by elaborate needlework runners and ceramic plates with centralized, often vulvar, motifs. When the piece was first shown, at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 1979, it drew the largest audience in that museum's history. Although it was praised by many feminists, it also engendered vehemently negative responses, from mainstream art critics and feminist commentators alike.  The essays in this volume, which is published in conjunction with an exhibition organized by UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, provide a major reevaluation of The Dinner Party and the debates that it has prompted, placing it within the broader context of art history and theory. Presenting works dating from the early 1960s to the present by other feminist artists, the book explores important issues raised in feminist art history and practice over the last thirty-five years. The works included make clear that The Dinner Party was produced within, and takes its meanings from, a historical matrix in which explorations of female sexuality, ideals of beauty, domesticity, violence against women, the questioning of male authority, the diversity of female experience, and other concerns have served as means of addressing issues of identity, oppression, and personal and social power.  Through its examination of the reception of The Dinner Party, both in the United States and abroad, Sexual Politics also traces the development of feminist art theory. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0520205650 9780520205659 0520205669 9780520205666 0943739209 9780943739205 0943739195 9780943739199 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>95050772 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Chicago, Judy, 1939-  Dinner party --Exhibitions.<br/>Chicago, Judy, 1939- --Exhibitions.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>China painting--United States--Exhibitions<br/>Needlework--United States--Exhibitions<br/>Women in art--Exhibitions<br/>Feminism and art--United States--Exhibitions<br/>Art, American--20th century
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>NK4605.5.U63  / C482 1996a 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>709.2