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Image:The dinner party book cover.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Cover of Judy Chicago???s 1996 book describing the work The Dinner Party is a work by feminism|feminist artist Judy Chicago depicting place settings for 39 mythical and historical List of famous women in history|famous women throughout history. It was produced from 1974 to 1979 by a collaboration of many individual women and first exhibited in 1979. The table is triangular and measures forty-eight feet on each side. Each place setting features a placemat / tablecloth with the woman's name and artworks relating to the woman's life, along with a napkin, utensils, glass / goblet, and a plate. The plates all feature a butterfly- or flower-like sculpture, representing the woman's vulva. "The Dinner Party elevates female achievement in Western history to a heroic scale traditionally reserved for men. The white floor of triangular porcelain tiles is inscribed with the names of 999 other notable women. Since 2002 the home of the work has been the Brooklyn Museum of Art which purchased it through a gift from The Elizabeth A. Sackler Foundation. Its permanent exhibition there is due to begin in 2006. The first wing of the triangular table has place settings for women from Primordial Goddesses of prehistory through to Hypatia of classical Rome. This section symbolises the emergence and decline of the Classical antiquity|Classical world. The second wing begins with Marcella, and denotes the rise of Christianity. It concludes with Anna van Schurman in the seventeenth century. The third wing represents the Revolution|Age of revolutions. It begins with Anne Hutchinson and moves through the twentieth century to the final places paying tribute to Virginia Woolf and Georgia O'Keeffe, The 39 women with places at the table are:- Wing I: From Prehistory to the Roman Empire<br> 1. Primordial Goddess <br> 2. Fertile Goddess <br> 3. Ishtar <br> 4. Kali <br> 5. Snake Goddess <br> 6. Sophia (goddess)|Sophia <br> 7. Amazons|Amazon <br> 8. Hatshepsut <br> 9. Judith <br> 10. Sappho <br> 11. Aspasia <br> 12. Boudica <br> 13. Hypatia <br> Wing II: From the Beginnings of Christianity to the Reformation<br> 14. Marcella <br> 15. Saint Bridget <br> 16. Theodora <br> 17. Hrosvitha <br> 18. Trotula of Salerno <br> 19. Eleanor of Aquitaine <br> 20. Hildegard of Bingen <br> 21. Petronilla de Meath <br> 22. Christine de Pisan <br> 23. Isabella d'Este <br> 24. Elizabeth I of England|Elizabeth R <br> 25. Artemisia Gentileschi <br> 26. Anna Maria van Schurman|Anna van Schurman <br> Wing III: From the American to the Women???s Revolution<br> 27. Anne Hutchinson <br> 28. Sacajawea <br> 29. Caroline Herschel <br> 30. Mary Wollstonecraft <br> 31. Sojourner Truth <br> 32. Susan B. Anthony <br> 33. Elizabeth Blackwell <br> 34. Emily Dickinson <br> 35. Ethel Smyth <br> 36. Margaret Sanger <br> 37. Natalie Barney <br> 38. Virginia Woolf <br> 39. Georgia O'Keeffe <br> The names of 999 more are represented in the floor tiles.
Category:Works of art Category:Feminism Category:Women This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "The Dinner Party".
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