(Hypatia by Raphael)
The Dinner Party is an installation artwork by feminist artist Judy Chicago depicting place settings for 39 mythical and historical famous women. It was produced from 1974 to 1979 as a collaboration and was first exhibited in 1979. Since 2007 it has been on permanent exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA.
Judy Chicago, the instigator and co-ordinator of the project, stated that its purpose was to "end the ongoing cycle of omission in which women were written out of the historical record."
The table is triangular and measures forty-eight feet on each side. Each place setting features a placemat with the woman's name and artworks relating to her life, with a napkin, utensils, a glass or goblet, and a plate. Many of the plates feature a butterfly or flower-like sculpture (...). A collaborative effort of many female artists, The Dinner Party celebrates traditional female accomplishments such as textile arts (weaving, embroidery, sewing) and china painting, which have been framed as craft or domestic art, as opposed to the more culturally valued, male dominated fine arts. The white floor of triangular porcelain tiles is inscribed with the names of a further 999 notable women.
The Dinner Party was donated by the Elizabeth A. Sackler Foundation to the Brooklyn Museum, where it is now permanently housed within the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, which opened in March 2007.
"The Dinner Party elevates female achievement in Western history to a heroic scale traditionally reserved for men."
The table is triangular and measures forty-eight feet on each side. Each place setting features a placemat with the woman's name and artworks relating to her life, with a napkin, utensils, a glass or goblet, and a plate. Many of the plates feature a butterfly or flower-like sculpture (...). A collaborative effort of many female artists, The Dinner Party celebrates traditional female accomplishments such as textile arts (weaving, embroidery, sewing) and china painting, which have been framed as craft or domestic art, as opposed to the more culturally valued, male dominated fine arts. The white floor of triangular porcelain tiles is inscribed with the names of a further 999 notable women.
The Dinner Party was donated by the Elizabeth A. Sackler Foundation to the Brooklyn Museum, where it is now permanently housed within the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, which opened in March 2007.
"The Dinner Party elevates female achievement in Western history to a heroic scale traditionally reserved for men."
The 39 women with places at the table are:
Wing I: From Prehistory to the Roman Empire
Wing I: From Prehistory to the Roman Empire
1. Primordial Goddess, 2. Fertility goddess, 3. Ishtar, 4. Kali, 5. Snake Goddess, 6. Sophia, 7. Amazon, 8. Hatshepsut, 9. Judith, 10. Sappho, 11. Aspasia, 12. Boudica, 13. Hypatia.
Wing II: From the Beginnings of Christianity to the Reformation
14. Marcella, 15. Saint Bridget, 16. Theodora of Byzantium, 17. Hrosvitha, 18. Trotula of Salerno, 19. Eleanor of Aquitaine, 20. Hildegard of Bingen, 21. Petronilla de Meath, 22. Christine de Pisan, 23. Isabella d'Este, 24. Elizabeth I of England, 25. Artemisia Gentileschi, 26. Anna van Schurman.
Wing III: From the American to the Women’s Revolution
27. Anne Hutchinson, 28. Sacajawea, 29. Caroline Herschel, 30. Mary Wollstonecraft, 31. Sojourner Truth, 32. Susan B. Anthony, 33. Elizabeth Blackwell, 34. Emily Dickinson, 35. Ethel Smyth, 36. Margaret Sanger, 37. Natalie Barney, 38. Virginia Woolf, 39. Georgia O'Keeffe.
The names of 999 more women are represented on the floor tiles (the names are spelled here as they appear on the tiles).
The Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, The Dinner Party (includes a searchable database of all 1039 women).
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