Description
Third Drawer Down In collaboration with Judy Chicago, Third Drawer Down presents the Caroline Herschel Linen Tea Towel, adapted from one of the place settings in Chicago's famous The Dinner Party. Caroline Herschel was an astronomer, who discovered several comets, one of which bears her name.
The Dinner Party was a milestone artwork for Chicago's career and 1970s feminist art in general. The settings on The Dinner Party's triangular form consisted of embroidered runners, gold chalices and utensils, and china-plated porcelain plates. The plates featured raised motifs based on vulvar and butterfly forms unique to the woman being honoured.
Specifications
- 100% Linen
- Gift packaged
- 50cm x 67cm (19.3" x 26")
About the Artist
Judy Chicago is an artist, author, educator and humanist. Her work and life are models for an enlarged definition of art, the expanded role for the artist, and women's rights to freedom of expression. Chicago is well-known for her role in creating a Feminist art education program in California during the early 1970s. Her monumental work The Dinner Party (1974 - 1979), now housed at the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art in the Brooklyn Museum, New York, is one of the most significant works in feminist art history.
Artwork
Judy Chicago, Caroline HerschelRunner from The Dinner Party, 1974-1979.
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