Am I the only one who did not know that Judy Chicago’s The Dinner Party includes a Virginia Woolf plate? Take the poll below and let me know.
The Woolf plate and its setting, one of 39 included in Chicago’s ground-breaking iconic feminist work of art, is ripe with symbolism.
It features a three-dimensional plate formed to look like a blooming flower with seeds in the center. According to Chicago, the plate itself symbolizes Woolf’s belief in unrestricted expression and the fecundity of her creative genius.
Beneath the plate, a thin chiffon fabric runner symbolizes Woolf’s fragile mental state, while underneath that, a stitched and painted light beam glows, symbolizing To the Lighthouse.
For more details about the symbolism of Woolf’s plate, go here. You can also find her friend Ethel Smyth’s plate here.
And if you are like me and have never seen Chicago’s masterpiece in person, you can view it online here as a long-term installation in the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art in the Brooklyn Museum.
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Thanks for the invitation to the Brooklyn Museum, Sally. Many of us will be in NYC June 4-7 for Woolf and the City, this year’s Woolf conference. I hope to attend “The Dinner Party” while I am in town.
Пора переименовать блог, присвоив название связанное с доменами 🙂 может хватит про них?
Thanks
1 п. “Не имей сто друзей, а имей сто шекелей” тоже хорошо рифмуется 🙂
8 п. Ты никогда не потеряешь работу. Когда закончатся фотографии можно размещать рисунки (да хоть бы и конкурс объявить на лучший рисунок Одри (-:), аппликации и фотографии поделок из пластилина…
9 п. Сто пудов ! 🙂
Or better yet, those interested, can actually come to the Brooklyn Musesum where The Dinner Party by Judy Chicago is on long term view in The Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art.