The Dinner Party/Lucy Lippard Sexual Politics Analysis
Judy Chicago: “The Dinner Party” / Lucy Lippard: “Sexual Politics”
The political turbulence that characterized the American public of the late 1960’s and early 1970’s produced an environment that became conducive for disenfranchised groups to express their disagreement with the status quo. One of the most significant of these developments was the intense gain in momentum of the feminists, who exposed prevailing sexist attitudes in the art world at the time that reinforced dominantly male museum, gallery, and criticism and excluded works by women in many institutions across the country. This upheaval was catalyzed by leaders of the movement in the art world, such as Judy Chicago and Lucy Lippard, who revealed these biased attitudes with feminist
The political turbulence that characterized the American public of the late 1960’s and early 1970’s produced an environment that became conducive for disenfranchised groups to express their disagreement with the status quo. One of the most significant of these developments was the intense gain in momentum of the feminists, who exposed prevailing sexist attitudes in the art world at the time that reinforced dominantly male museum, gallery, and criticism and excluded works by women in many institutions across the country. This upheaval was catalyzed by leaders of the movement in the art world, such as Judy Chicago and Lucy Lippard, who revealed these biased attitudes with feminist