List Of Names Heritage Floor Dinner Party

There is also one man listed kresilas who was mistakenly included in the installation as he was thought to have been a woman called cresilla.

List of names heritage floor dinner party.

This monumental work of art is comprised of a triangular table divided by three wings each 48 feet long. The dinner party rests upon the heritage floor which is an equilateral triangle forty eight feet on each side this monumental floor is comprised of 2 300 hand cast porcelain tiles and provides both a structural and metaphorical support for the dinner party table inscribed in gold luster are the names of 999 mythical and historical women of achievement who were selected to contextualize the. There are 39 elaborate place settings arranged along a triangular table for 39 mythical and historical famous women. Choose the name of a woman that you do not recognize.

This list documents all 998 mythical historical and notable women whose names are displayed on the handmade white tiles of the heritage floor as part of judy chicago s the dinner party art installation 1979. Period and or geography appear on the heritage floor beneath the dinner party. The dinner party by judy chicago is an icon of feminist art which represents 1 038 women in history 39 women are represented by place settings and another 999 names are inscribed in the heritage floor on which the table rests. This monumental work of art is comprised of a triangular table divided by three wings each 48 feet long.

The dinner party is an installation artwork by feminist artist judy chicago widely regarded as the first epic feminist artwork it functions as a symbolic history of women in civilization. The dinner party by judy chicago is an icon of feminist art which represents 1 038 women in history 39 women are represented by place settings and another 999 names are inscribed in the heritage floor on which the table rests.