Catalog published to accompany the exhibition entitled "Roots of "The Dinner Party": History in the Making", held at the Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY, October 19, 2017-March 4, 2018. Texts by Carmen Hermo, Anne Pasternak, and Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn.
Contents:
Artist Biography. Carmen Hermo -- 19-Second Scream / Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn -- Judy Chicago in Conversation / Carmen Hermo -- Learning to China Paint -- Eleanor of Aquitaine -- Mary Wollstonecraft -- Sojourner Truth -- Entryway Banners for The Dinner Party -- Needlework -- Sources -- Correspondence, Research, and the Heritage Floor -- Finding a Permanent Home -- Artist Biography.
Summary:
"Roots of "The Dinner Party": History in the Making is the first museum exhibition to examine Chicago's evolving plans for The Dinner Party in depth, detailing its development as a multilayered artwork, a triumph of community art-making, and a testament to the power of historical revisionism. ... he exhibition presents rarely seen test plates, research documents, ephemera, notebooks, and preparatory drawings from 1971 through 1979 alongside The Dinner Party, encouraging exploration of its formal, conceptual, and material progress." Brooklyn Museum website, visited 6/12/2018, https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/roots_of_the_dinner_party
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