Judy Chicago: New Views

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As the first major monograph on the feminist artist Judy Chicago in nineteen years, this fully illustrated volume provides fresh perspectives by leading scholars. Many people know her famed The Dinner Party, installed as the centrepiece of the Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum, but few know her other prescient bodies of work - on sex, birth, death, violence, the natural world, and more. Featuring her newest work, The End, as well as major examples from throughout her career, this fascinating, elegantly designed book offers a new examination of Chicago's wide-ranging artistic expression and powerful voice. The book is published on the occasion of the artist's eightieth birthday and an exhibition of new work at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, as well as the announcement of the Judy Chicago online archival portal.

Contents: Acknowledgements; Who's Afraid of Judy Chicago; In Conversation with Judy Chicago; Through Minimalist to Feminist; 'To Tell of Touch, to Touch by Telling': The Erotics of The Dinner Party; Gestures of Liberation: Smoke and Firework Performances, 1968-1974; Of Woman Born; Metamorphosis as Stasis in PowerPlay and the Holocaust Project; Two Tales of Herstoric Proportion; The End: A Meditation on Death and Extinction; Chronology; Selected Bibliography; Index.

Published to accompany the exhibition Judy Chicago: The End which will be on view at the National Museum of Women in the Arts from September 2019 to January 2020.

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Many consider Judy Chicago one of the most influential artists of the last fifty years. The impact of her work extends throughout the international art, feminist, literary communities -- and beyond. Her majestic 1979 installation The Dinner Party is recognized as a masterpiece of the twentieth century. Chicago has authored seven books including Through the Flower. Chicago lives with her husband, photographer Donald Woodman, and their numerous feline companions in Belen, New Mexico Massimiliano Gioni is artistic director of the New Museum, New York. Hans Ulrich Obrist is artistic director of the Serpentine Galleries, London. Martha C. Nussbaum is a philosopher and Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago. Chad Alligood is an independent curator. Manuela Ammer is curator at mumok, Vienna. Susan Fisher Sterling is the Alice West Director of the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Philipp Kaiser is an independent curator and critic. Jonathan D. Katz is director of the doctoral program in Visual Studies at the State University of New York at Buffalo. William J. Simmons is Provost Fellow in the Humanities in the art history PhD program at the University of Southern California. Sarah Thornton is a writer and sociologist of culture.