An artist focused on feminist issues with a goal of promoting more respect for women, Judy Chicago is best known for her famous installation exhibit called Dinner Party, a monumental testament to... Read full biography
An artist focused on feminist issues with a goal of promoting more respect for women, Judy Chicago is best known for her famous installation exhibit called Dinner Party, a monumental testament to women's collective histories. Much of her work is collaborative including a major exhibition that... Read full biography
An artist focused on feminist issues with a goal of promoting more respect for women, Judy Chicago is best known for her famous installation exhibit called Dinner Party, a monumental testament to women's collective histories. Much of her work is collaborative including a major exhibition that opened in May, 2000 at the American Craft Museum in New York and titled "Resolutions for the Millennium: A Stitch in Time.". Dinner Party, begun in 1974 and finished in 1978, involved more than 100 women... Read full biography
An artist focused on feminist issues with a goal of promoting more respect for women, Judy Chicago is best known for her famous installation exhibit called Dinner Party, a monumental testament to women's collective histories. Much of her work is collaborative including a major exhibition that opened in May, 2000 at the American Craft Museum in New York and titled "Resolutions for the Millennium: A Stitch in Time.". Dinner Party, begun in 1974 and finished in 1978, involved more than 100 women in the execution and combined sculpture, ceramics, china painting and needlework. It was an equilateral triangle 48 feet wide with 39 place settings, each specially designed to be appropriate for a particular woman to whom it was dedicated. Many of... Read full biography
An artist focused on feminist issues with a goal of promoting more respect for women, Judy Chicago is best known for her famous installation exhibit called Dinner Party, a monumental testament to women's collective histories. Much of her work is collaborative including a major exhibition that opened in May, 2000 at the American Craft Museum in New York and titled "Resolutions for the Millennium: A Stitch in Time.". Dinner Party, begun in 1974 and finished in 1978, involved more than 100 women in the execution and combined sculpture, ceramics, china painting and needlework. It was an equilateral triangle 48 feet wide with 39 place settings, each specially designed to be appropriate for a particular woman to whom it was dedicated. Many of these women were important figures in history such as the Hatshepsut, the Egyptian Pharoah, and writer Virginia W... Read full biography
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About Judy Cohen Chicago: Books
Books & Publications (50)
Publications based on askART research. List may not be comprehensive.
A Museum of Their Own: National Museum of Women in the Arts
2008
Holladay, Wilhelmina Cole
240 pages (color)
Radical Gestures: Feminism and Performance Art in North America
2006
Wark, Jayne
285 pages
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Who's Who in American Art, 2004 2003 - 2004 (25th Edition)
2004
McGowan, Alison C (Editor)
1,512 pages
Judy Chicago: An American Vision
2000
Lucie-Smith, Edward
192 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
California Art: 450 Years of Painting & Other Media
1998
Moure, Nancy Dustin Wall
560 pages (color)
Visual Arts in the 20th Century
1997
Lucie-Smith, Edward
400 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art, 1997-1998
1997
Marquis Who's Who
1,515 pages
Female Gazes: Seventy-Five Women Artists
1997
Martin, Elizabeth; Vivian Meyer
176 pages (color)
Accents on Artists A fact-filled pronunciation guide. Over 800 artist’s names you should know…
1996
Barbara and Peter Toohil
363 pages (color)
Beyond the Flower The Autobiography of a Feminist Artist
1996
Chicago, Judy
282 pages (color)
Investigating Modern Art
1996
Dawtry, Liz (others)
185 pages (color)
Art of the Postmodern Era From the Late 1960s to the Early 1990s
1996
Sandler, Irving
636 pages (color)
Three Artists (Three Women)
1996
Wagner, Anne Middleton
346 pages (color)
North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century A Biographical Dictionary
1995
Heller, Jules and Nancy G. Heller
612 pages
Art Today
1995
Lucie-Smith, Edward
512 pages (color)
American Art History and Culture
1994
Craven, Wayne
687 pages (color)
Picturing History: American Painting, 1770-1930 (Exhibition catalog)
1993
Ayers, William S
256 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts)
1993
Bowker R R
1,473 pages
Printmaking in New Mexico 1880-1990
1991
Adams, Clinton
167 pages (color)
Explorations The Visual Arts since 1945
1991
Hoffman, Katherine
400 pages (color)
Women, Art, and Society
1990
Chadwick, Whitney
384 pages (color)
American Women Sculptors: A History of Women Working in Three Dimensions
1990
Rubinstein, Charlotte Streifer
638 pages
Contemporary Artists (3rd Edition)
1989
Naylor, Colin (editor)
1,059 pages
Commited to Print (Exhibition catalog)
1988
Wye, Deborah
120 pages
Women Artists An Illustrated History
1987
Heller, Nancy
224 pages (color)
Judy Chicago: The Birth Project (Exhibition catalog)
1986
Babusis, Vytas
8 pages
Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986
1986
Jaques Cattell Press
1,292 pages
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
Art in the San Francisco Bay Area 1945-1980/An Illustrated History
1985
Albright, Thomas
349 pages (color)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Paintings and Sculpture Collection
1985
DuPont, Diana, K Holland
402 pages (color)
American Artists: An Illustrated Survey of Leading Contemporary Americans
1985
Krantz, Les
347 pages (color)
American Art Now
1985
Lucie-Smith, Edward
160 pages (color)
American Painting and Sculpture A Concise History
1984
Baigell, Mathew
420 pages
Movements in Art since 1945 New Revised Edition
1984
Lucie-Smith, Edward
288 pages (color)
The Art of California Selected Works/ Oakland Museum
1984
Orr-Cahill, Christina
199 pages (color)
The Pluralist Era: American Art 1968-1981
1984
Robins, Corrine
246 pages (color)
American Women Artists from Early Times to the Present
1982
Rubinstein, Charlotte Streifer
560 pages (color)
Decade Los Angeles Painting in the Seventies (Exhibition catalog)
1981
Art Center College of Design
108 pages (color)
Southern California Artists 1940-1980 (Exhibition catalog)
1981
Ball, Maudette
66 pages (color)
Fifty West Coast Artists: A Critical Selection of Painters and Sculptors Working in California