I set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history.
About Judy Chicago
Judy Chicagois an American feminist artist, art educator, and writer known for her large collaborative art installation pieces about birth and creation images, which examine the role of women in history and culture. During the 1970s, Chicago founded the first feminist art program in the United States at California State University, Fresnowhich acted as a catalyst for feminist art and art education during the 1970s.
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So women are at the beginning of building a language, and not all women are conscious of it.
American artist, author, and teacher
There’s no question that many more women artists are showing worldwide now than they were when I was a young woman, and that’s really great.
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I think what’s important is to give space to the range of human experience.
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I feel like I have at least begun to make a contribution, but my most significant concern has to do with whether my actual art will be preserved for future generations or be erased.
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You shouldn’t have to justify your work.
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Ah, well, do I wish that we lived in a world where gender didn’t figure so prominently? Of course. Do I even think about myself as a woman when I go to make art? Of course not.
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People have accepted the media’s idea of what feminism is, but that doesn’t mean that it’s right or true or real. Feminism is not monolithic. Within feminism, there is an array of opinions.
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I set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history.
American artist, author, and teacher
I am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of human kind and I believe that, at this moment of history, feminism is humanism.
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Donald, my husband, considers himself a feminist.
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With my early work I got eviscerated by my male professors, and so you learned to disguise your impulses, as many women have done. And that’s definitely changed.
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I go to make art as who I am as a person. The fact that I am a woman comes into play maybe in the kinds of things I’m interested in or in the way I structure a canvas.
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