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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Images are beautiful bright and vivid. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> JUDY CHICAGO’s internationally acclaimed installation The Dinner Party is a monumental work of art conceived as a symbolic history of women in Western civilization Strategically countering the traditional erasure of women’s achievements this epic work honors 1038 iconic mythical archetypal and historical women. This the most definitive book to be published on Chicago’s masterwork reveals the visual and intellectual scope of the installation more fully than ever before supported by new photography documentary images and the artist’s expanded research into the history of the women.represented. Chicago begins by discussing the creative genesis of The Dinner Party the dynamism of her collaborative approach to art-making and the technical processes involved. Mirroring the structure of the installation the book then divides into three beautifully illustrated “wings.” or sections covering from prehistory to the twentieth century. These explore the remarkable lives of the thirty-nine women symbolically represented as “guests of honor” at The Dinner Party and of the 999 other women honored in the work. To conclude Chicago reflects on the work’s early often hostile reception in the gi world and the political arena as well as the subsequent decades-long struggle for its preservation and permanent exhibition (MP)