Judy Chicago Dinner Party Site Project photographs, 1975-2001 [graphic]

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Dinner Party Site Project (Cleveland, Ohio). Judy Chicago Dinner Party Site Project photographs, 1975-2001 [graphic]

Judy Chicago Dinner Party Site Project photographs, 1975-2001 [graphic]

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/746568532

Consists of two black and white photographs, 181 color photographs, eight negatives, and 131 slides. The Judy Chicago Dinner Party Site Project Photographs contain the photographs of the Ohio-Chicago Arts Project, Inc., 1980-1985 and "The Dinner Party" Site Project, 1991-2001. This collection is of value to researchers seeking illustrative materials (primarily slide images) on "The Dinner Party," and its depiction of sexuality and gender, modern art, women's history, feminist art, and decorative and domestic art techniques. These images document "The Dinner Party" as well as individual place-settings dedicated to historical and allegorical female figures including: Ishtar, Isabella d'Este, Sojourner Truth, Susan B. Anthony, Margaret Sanger, Virginia Wolfe, Emily Dickinson and others. Also included are images of "The Dinner Party's" accompanying exhibit items and exhibit space when it was initially on display in Cleveland Heights at the former Temple on the Heights in 1981. Additionally, this collection contains photographic records of "The Dinner Party" Site Project events held largely in the greater Cleveland area. Specifically, these images document International Women's Day events hosted by "The Dinner Party" Site Project, Dinner for the Dinner Party, International Quilting Bee, the opening of the "Sexual Politics" exhibition in Los Angeles, and organizational meetings.

322 items (0.2 linear feet)

Western Reserve Historical Society, Research Library