Judy Chicago

"'Chicago In Glass' ... is a coherant body of work made exclusively of glass (along with related drawings), both cast and fused. Many of the works in the exhibition focus on the coporeal and symbolic role of the human hand."--David Revere McFadden, page 2. "This exhibition is in part the result of a 3 ¹/₂ year collaboration between artist Judy Chicago and the team of Ruth and Norm Dobbins. In addition, several works are included that were created prior to the beginning of that collaboration, when Chicago was first becoming interested in glass ..."--Page 6.

My childhood -- Making a professional life and an equalized relationship -- Back to painting / getting married / the Women's Movement -- Fresno and the women's program -- Returning to Los Angeles -- Womanhouse / performances -- Finding my way and discovering women's art -- Learning from the past -- Getting it together.

Anais Nin heralded the first volume of Judy Chicago's autobiography, Through the Flower, as "remarkable" and "invaluable for all women." Now, twenty years on, Chicago takes us Beyond the Flower, lifting the veil of the international public persona she has become since her influential work The Dinner Party, and revealing her very personal struggles as an artist and a woman in late-twentieth-century America. With the same intense intimacy and unabashed probing of issues of gender, power, and history that characterize her monumental works of art and made Through the Flower a classic in the literature of women and the arts, she asks hard questions about the role of art in our culture. Judy Chicago's contagious and affirmative energy suffuses Beyond the Flower, and this volume will excite and provoke dialogue among feminists, art lovers, and talented women rising through the ranks of any profession - or now taking stock of their lives.

"The official publication celebrating Judy Chicago's feminist art masterpiece ... and an introduction to outstanding women in history. Judy Chicago's The Dinner Party is a defining work of feminist and contemporary art that brought women's history to light on the national stage when it was completed in 1979. Published to coincide with Chicago's 75th birthday and a nationwide series of events and exhibitions, the book features newly commissioned photography and two new essays by Chicago, along with essays by art historian Fraces Borzello and historian Jane Gerhard, and a foreword from museum director Arnold Lehman"--Publisher's website.

Fifty full-color and 350 black-and-white photographs illustrate the Birth Project exhibit, conceived by Judy Chicago, based on nearly one hundred of her works, and needleworked by women across the country. Between 1980 - 1985, Judy Chicago designed dozens of images on the subject of birth and creation to be embellished by needleworkers around the United States, Canada and as far away as New Zealand. Formatted into provocative exhibition units which included both needleworks and documentary materials, these works toured the country and Canada, eventually placed by 'Through the Flower' in numerous institutions where they are on public view or used as part of university curricula.Prior to the Birth Project, few images of birth existed in Western art, a puzzling omission as birth is a central focus of many women's lives and a universal experience of all humanity - as everyone is born. Seeking to fill this void, Judy Chicago created multiple images of birth to be realized through needlework, a visually rich medium which has been ignored or trivialized by the mainstream art community.

"Illustrated text of Judy Chicago's inspiring lecture of 21 October 1982, transcribed and reworked for publication, together with a CD recording of the original lecture."--Page 4 of cover.

"These books provide a historical overview of the development of different types of art and artistic movements; explore the roots and influences of the genre; discuss the pioneers of the art and consider the changes the genre has undergone"--

Fresno-based artist Nancy Youdelman is acknowledged as an original member of the feminist art movement that began five decades ago at her alma mater, California State University, Fresno, under the tutelage of Judy Chicago. 'Fashioning a Feminist Vision' is a retrospective exhibition of Youdelman's artistic career and encompasses the 45 years between 1972 and 2017. Exhibition Curator Michele Ellis Pracy has selected 56 pieces, divided by decade, to illustrate the development of the artist's oeuvre beginning with her time as an art student in the early 1970s to her current command of her feminist vision as an established artist today.