Judy Chicago is America's most dynamic living artist. Her works comprise
a dizzying array of media from performance and installation to the
glittering table laid for thirty-nine iconic women in The Dinner Party
(now permanently housed at the Brooklyn Museum), the groundbreaking
Birth Project, and the meticulously researched Holocaust Project. She
designed the monumental installation for Dior's 2020 Paris couture show
and, in 2019, established the Judy Chicago Portal, which will help to
accomplish her lifelong goal of overcoming the erasure that has eclipsed
the achievements of so many women.
The Flowering is her vivid and revealing autobiography, fully
illustrated with photographs of her work, as well as
never-before-published personal images and a foreword by Gloria Steinem.
Chicago has revised and updated her earlier, classic works with
previously untold stories, fresh insights, and an extensive afterword
covering the last twenty years. This powerful narrative weaves together
the stories behind some of Chicago's most significant artworks and her
journey as a woman artist with the chronicles of her personal
relationships and her understanding, from decades of experience and
extensive research, of how misogyny, racism, and other prejudices
intersect to erase the legacies of artists who are not white and male
while dismissing the suffering of millions of creatures who share the
planet.
With the first career retrospective of her work forthcoming at the de
Young Museum in 2021, Chicago reinforces her message of resilience for a
new generation of artists and activists. The Flowering is an essential
read for anyone interested in making change.
