
Judy Chicago
Stunning vintage poster from the great feminist artist Judy Chicago. In remarkable condition and signed by the artist.
'The Dinner Party' is Chicago's most famous work. It is monumental in scale, a dinner table with 39 place settings honouring historical and mythological women. The table is triangular, non-hierarchical and minimalist, it represents women finally being awarded 'a seat at the table'.
Each place setting has a ceramic plate and a hand-embroidered cloth, materials that were traditionally dismissed as 'feminine' and 'decorative' by the predominantly male 1970's art elite.
Yet the artwork drew crowds in the hundred's of thousands, it caught a moment... women finally stepping into the limelight. It is truly one of the most important works of the 20th century.
The women represented are;
1. Primordial Goddess
2. Fertile Goddess
3. Ishtar
4. Kali
5. Snake Goddess
6. Sophia
7. Amazon
8. Hatshepsut
9. Judith
10. Sappho
11. Aspasia
12. Boadicea
13. Hypatia
14. Marcella
15. Saint Bridget
16. Theodora
17. Hrosvitha
18. Trota of Salerno
19. Eleanor of Aquitaine
20. Hildegarde of Bingen
21. Petronilla de Meath
22. Christine de Pisan
23. Isabella d'Este
24. Elizabeth I
25. Artemisia Gentileschi
26. Anna van Schurman
27. Anne Hutchinson
28. Sacajawea
29. Caroline Herschel
30. Mary Wollstonecraft
31. Sojourner Truth
32. Susan B. Anthony
33. Elizabeth Blackwell
34. Emily Dickinson
35. Ethel Smyth
36. Margaret Sanger
37. Natalie Barney
38. Virginia Woolf
39. Georgia O'Keeffe