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 of women's
achievements.
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 classic first autobiography with previously
untold stories, fresh insights, and an extensive afterword covering the
last twenty years. This powerful narrative weaves together the stories
behind someof 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 artistswho are not white and male while dismissing the suffering of
millions of creatures who share the planet.
The Flowering is an essential read for anyone interested in making
change, now available in paperback.
