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''The Dinner Party'' is a work by Feminist artist Judy Chicago depicting place settings for 39 mythical and historical Famous Women throughout history. It was produced from 1974 to 1979 by a collaboration of many individual women and first exhibited in 1979 . Judy Chicago stated the purpose of the work as ''"The Dinner Party was meant to end the ongoing cycle of omission in which women were written out of the historical record."'' The table is triangular and measures forty-eight feet on each side. Each place setting features a placemat / tablecloth with the woman's name and artworks relating to the woman's life, along with a napkin, utensils, glass / goblet, and a plate. The plates all feature a Butterfly - or Flower -like sculpture, representing the woman's Vulva . "The Dinner Party elevates female achievement in Western history to a heroic scale traditionally reserved for men. The white floor of triangular porcelain tiles is inscribed with the names of 999 other notable women. Since 2002 the home of the work has been the Brooklyn Museum Of Art which purchased it through a gift from The Elizabeth A. Sackler Foundation . Its permanent exhibition there is due to begin in 2006 . WOMEN REPRESENTED IN THE WORK The first wing of the triangular table has place settings for women from Primordial Goddesses of prehistory through to Hypatia of classical Rome. This section symbolises the emergence and decline of the Classical World . The second wing begins with Marcella, and denotes the rise of Christianity . It concludes with Anna van Schurman in the seventeenth century. The third wing represents the Age Of Revolution s. It begins with Anne Hutchinson and moves through the twentieth century to the final places paying tribute to Virginia Woolf and Georgia O'Keeffe, The 39 women with places at the table are:- Wing I: From Prehistory to the Roman Empire 1. Primordial Goddess 2. Fertile Goddess 3. Ishtar 4. Kali 5. Snake Goddess 6. Sophia 7. Amazon 8. Hatshepsut 9. Judith 10. Sappho 11. Aspasia 12. Boudica 13. Hypatia Wing II: From the Beginnings of Christianity to the Reformation 14. Marcella 15. Saint Bridget 16. Theodora 17. Hrosvitha 18. Trotula Of Salerno 19. Eleanor Of Aquitaine 20. Hildegard Of Bingen 21. Petronilla De Meath 22. Christine De Pisan 23. Isabella D'Este 24. Elizabeth R 25. Artemisia Gentileschi 26. Anna Van Schurman Wing III: From the American to the Women’s Revolution 27. Anne Hutchinson 28. Sacajawea 29. Caroline Herschel 30. Mary Wollstonecraft 31. Sojourner Truth 32. Susan B. Anthony 33. Elizabeth Blackwell 34. Emily Dickinson 35. Ethel Smyth 36. Margaret Sanger 37. Natalie Barney 38. Virginia Woolf 39. Georgia O'Keeffe The names of 999 more are represented in the floor tiles. REFERENCE
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