Carolina QuotesAs 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.
Judy Chicago Connected to the Carolinas
Source
In an interview with Ann Stubbs on New York City's WBAI (1981)
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- 1981
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“As we know, by and large women's life experience has not bee…” Judy Chicago. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-812967522E. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/812967522e
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