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Book review…
This is a well made book. Dense, heavy and honest.
At first I couldn’t figure out why I was feeling weird while reading it and then I realized that it was because Judy was telling the truth, about herself, her life, and the male dominated world of art.
Sh doesn’t make excuses for men or the critics. She names names, calls things what they are. She’s loud and forward. She knows who she is, deep down inside. She does the work.
The press tried to destroy her, men and women alike. But she never gave up. She was misunderstood and attacked by critics who were afraid of her work, as she sometimes was herself, because of its strength and power. Many just didn’t have the ability to see what she was saying through her art and were threatened by it. Some still are.
Often broke she kept going. Struggling, but working and spreading feminism wherever she went.
There is a happy ending. That’s unusual for a woman artist. The fact that she has been recognized while she’s still alive is kind of amazing.
I recommend this book to anyone interested in art, feminism, the art world, critics, the erasure and destruction of female artists, the prejudice and sexism attached to everything, and a spirit that just would not lay down and die. Judy Chicago is an example of one who made it, in spite of those who tried to destroy her.
Have you noticed…a poem
have you noticed
there isn’t one single
work of art
where Joseph
or any other man
is sitting
holding his
child
what kind of message
does that send
to
everyone
Rethinking Life 
Written
on December 18, 2022