The Dinner Party: Restoring Women to History

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The official publication celebrating Judy Chicago’s feminist art masterpiece, The Dinner Party installation on the Brooklyn Museum, and an introduction to outstanding women in history.
 
Judy Chicago’s The Dinner Party is a defining work of feminist and recent art that brought women’s history to light on the national stage when it used to be completed in 1979. Published to coincide with Chicago’s 75th birthday and a nationwide series of events and exhibitions, the book features newly commissioned photography and two new essays by Chicago, in conjunction with essays by art historian Frances Borzello and historian Jane Gerhard, and a foreword from museum director Arnold Lehman.
 
The Dinner Party, a monumental triangular table, and the Heritage Floor on which the table rests, represents 1,038 women in history—39 by unique large ceramic plates and runners with any other 999 names inscribed on the floor’s ceramic tiles. It has been seen by more than one million visitors all over its international exhibition tour, and has been a principal destination on the Brooklyn Museum since its permanent housing in 2007. A perfect companion to a revolutionary artwork, the book is a should-have for both long-standing fans of Judy Chicago’s oeuvre and young artists and women searching for reflections of themselves in the history of Western Civilization.

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