Judy Chicago

North Carolina · connectedBorn 1939

American artist, author, and teacher (born 1939)

Worked at Duke University

painter, sculptor, writer, women's rights activist, serigrapher, installation artist

Quotations with a citation

Art without content is like sex without intimacy: technically sufficient, but emotionally empty.

As we know, by and large women's life experience has not been represented. It has been men's life experience that has made up the body of art history. At least, as we know it now; and there are all these categories and words that diminish women's expression. So that if it's done by a man, it's "high art"; if it's done by a woman, it's "decorative". If it's done by a man, it's "art"; if it's done by a woman, it's "political". There's all these words, you know? For example, images by men, of women are "art"; images by women of men are "political". Abstract patterns by men are "art"; abstract patterns by women in fabric are "decorative"; they're called quilts. So there's all these kind of double standards and all these kind of words that prevent women's experience from entering—even when they express it—from entering the mainstream of art.

At a certain point power becomes very frightening, and to really begin to reconstruct civilization means to really act in a powerful way. And power is the thing that women have been taught is a real taboo.

The history of art is that there have been alot of artists who have always been socially engaged and art comes out of both a desire to define the meaning of life and a kind of rage and railing against human limitations.

In the libraries

Open Library Beyond the flower · 1996 View library record ↗ Open Library Embroidering our heritage · 1980 View library record ↗ Open Library Judy Chicago · 2007 View library record ↗ Open Library Kitty City · 2005 View library record ↗ Open Library The dinner party · 1979 View library record ↗ Open Library Through the flower · 1975 View library record ↗

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Recorded without a firm citation

Kept here, labelled, rather than mixed in above.

Because we are denied knowledge of our history, we are deprived of standing upon each other's shoulders and building upon each other's hard earned accomplishments. Instead we are condemned to repeat what others have done before us and thus we continually reinvent the wheel. The goal of The Dinner Party is to break this cycle.