I wrote my thesis on the dinner party. I even wrote the Judy Chicago article over from scratch.
I knew this was happening..great to see some documentation after so long! Thanks for sharing! Sarah
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On Jul 26, 2013, at 7:48 AM, Sumana Harihareswara sumanah@wikimedia.org wrote:
http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/community/blogosphere/2013/07/16/writing-women...
Discovered via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-07-24/News_a... which summarizes: "Writing women back into history: A blog post at the Brooklyn Museum highlights Alexandra Thom's goal of chronicling all 1,038 women in Judy Chicago's *Dinner Party* on Wikipedia." You can help: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_women_in_the_Heritage_Floor
I've never seen "The Dinner Party" but I mean to someday, partly because of my spouse's description: "Judy Chicago's piece is a monument to dead and mythological heroes, realized in media traditionally associated with women: ceramics, sewing, weaving, embroidery, lace, and (implied) food. It serves as a counterweight to all of history's monuments honoring men." (My spouse wrote a science fiction novel that features "The Dinner Party".) -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation
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