EMBROIDERING OUR HERITAGE The Dinner Party Needlework Written and Illustrated by Judy Chicago Needlework background provided by Susan Hill Designed by Sheila Levrant de Bretteville
Chicago, Judy with Susan Hill.
Garden City, New York: Anchor Books, 1980. First edition. (Issued simultaneously in hard cover). Inscribed by the artist at the half-title page, "For / All best, / Judy Chicago / 1980". Large 8vo, 287pp; (including endmatter); glossy black wrappers with photograph of "The Dinner Party" at the front cover. Light overall wear with cracks in black at the spine, along edges and tips. Very good. "The Dinner Party" celebrates women and women's history. The work itself. a table with embroidered runners and place settings "symbolizing 39 women representing different aspects of women's history from primordial goddesses to contemporary writers and artists", was a collaborative effort organized by Judy Chicago. AMERICAN WOMEN ARTISTS, pp. 376, 379, 407-413. TIMELINES OF AMERICAN WOMEN'S HISTORY, p. 381. THE WOMEN'S CHRONOLOGY, p. 662. (Item ID: 11884)
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