The Dinner Party Heritage Floor

The dinner party is a monument to women s history and accomplishments it is a massive triangular table measuring 48 feet on each side with thirty nine place settings dedicated to prominent women throughout history and an additional 999 names are inscribed on the table s glazed porcelain brick base.

The dinner party heritage floor. Porcelain with rainbow and gold luster 48 x 48 x 48 ft. Coeur d alene id. 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. 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. There are 39 elaborate place settings arranged along a triangular table for 39 mythical and historical famous women. Sackler center for feminist art. The seven heritage panels are large scale hand colored photo and text collages ranging in size from 57 1 2 x 70 3 4 to 57 1 2 x 107 that portray the lives of the mythical and historical women whose names are inscribed in the heritage floor of the dinner party judy chicago with the help of a team of researchers selected 999 women from prehistory to the 20th century whose example.

Porcelain with rainbow and gold luster 48 x 48 x 48 ft. 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. 14 6 x 14 6 x 14 6 m. The dinner party heritage floor.

A monumental work of art a book and a film because she had discovered so much unknown information the work of art that was eventually housed at the elizabeth a. 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 1974 79. The dinner party suggests that these female heroes are equally worthy as male heroes of commemoration as are those hundreds of others whose names are inscribed upon the heritage floor.

This lustred porcelain surface serves as the foundation for the dinner party and the many important human accomplishments it symbolizes. 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.