Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Gioni, Massimiliano
2. Carrion-Murayari, Gary
3. Norton, Margot
4. Weisburg, Madeline
5. New Museum (New York, N.Y.), host institution

Description

1. 295 pages : color illustrations; 29 cm

Summary

1. "One of the most important contemporary American artists, Judy Chicago is known for multimedia works that embrace an explicitly feminist methodology. Accompanying a major retrospective at the New Museum, this book showcases Chicago's tremendous impact on American art and presents the full breadth of her career across installation, sculpture, drawing, textiles, photography, stained glass, and printmaking. Featuring an extensive selection curated by Chicago of works by women artists across history, the book also highlights her critical role as an activist and cultural historian who has reshaped the canon. This dedicated section features Chicago's 'personal museum' of women artists and historical figures whom she has placed within her own alternative canon, including Hilma af Klint, Simone de Beauvoir, Leonora Carrington, Elizabeth Catlett, Emily Dickinson, Barbara Hepworth, Frida Kahlo, Georgia O'Keeffe, Virginia Woolf, and many others. The book presents works from across her sixty-year career, from her experiments with Minimalism to her revolutionary feminist artworks and her later works on themes of social inequity, environmentalism, and the construction of masculinity." --

Alternative title

1. Herstory

Subject

1. Chicago, Judy, 1939- -- Exhibitions.
2. Art, American -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.
3. Art, American -- 21st century -- Exhibitions.
4. Feminism and art -- Exhibitions.
5. Women artists -- United States -- Exhibitions.
6. Women artists -- Exhibitions.
7. History in art.
8. Exhibitions.

Genre/Form

1. exhibition catalogs.
2. Exhibition catalogs.
3. Catalogues d'exposition.

Contents

1. Early work -- Always Judy Chicago / Ann Goldstein -- Atmospheres -- Where there's smoke : Judy Chicago's Atmospheres for a better world / Kymberly Pinder -- Changing the Atmosphere : a brief history of Judy Chicago's smoke sculptures / Candice Hopkins -- Female power -- Containers for my feelings : Judy Chicago and abstraction / Jennifer Higgie -- Womanhouse -- Through bounds of gender, pedagogy, flesh, and mortar : "Womanhouse" as catalyst / Margot Norton -- Gender games -- Auto bodies and smoke screens : Eros in early Judy Chicago / Quinn Latimer -- Birth project -- A world, split open / Carmen Winant -- Powerplay -- Judy Chicago's coming into power / Amelia Jones -- Holocaust project -- Exist otherwise : a conversation with Judy Chicago / Massimiliano Gioni -- Resolutions -- Feminine accomplishment : Judy Chicago's needlework in context / Glenn Adamson -- The end : a meditation on death and extinction -- Waiting for feminism / Connie Butler -- The female divine -- Would buildings resemble wombs? Judy Chicago's feminist architecture / Gary Carrion-Murayari -- The city of ladies -- The artist's museum / Madeline Weisburg -- Works in the exhibition.

Owning institution

1. Columbia University Libraries

Language

1. English

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references.

Exhibitions (note)

1. Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at New Museum, New York October 12, 2023 - January 14, 2024.