Word: throughly
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All told, the Osserman group raked in $20 million in coal investments, only $300,000 of which went to pay for leasing the lands. The rest was dissipated through a network of corporations; part went for commissions to tax-shelter salesmen and payoffs to business associates, part into other deals...
So it is with The Dinner Party, an installation by Judy Chicago (formerly Gerowitz), 41, and some 400 assistants. Five years in the making, it has been shown with resounding popular success -and considerable controversy-in San Francisco, Houston and Boston, and is now packing in the crowds at the...
Chicago announced the reason for this in her autobiography, Through the Flower, published in 1975, the year after she began The Dinner Party. "To be a woman is to be an object of contempt, and the vagina, stamp of femaleness, is despised," she wrote. "The woman artist, seeing herself as...
From Georgia O'Keeffe's closeup flowers in the '20s, through Louise Bourgeois's sculpture in the '50s, or Hannah Wilke's latex wall hangings in the '70s, there is by now a considerable array of
Indian style, with a back panel woven of nearly 40,000 beads. The labor and time entailed in all this are meant to remind us of the vast anonymous efforts expended by women through the centuries on supposedly minor, "decorative" arts, and to help rehabilitate all fiberwork as a serious...