While The Dinner Party runners feature period-appropriate needlework, Emily Dickinson’s plate extend
While The Dinner Party runners feature period-appropriate needlework, Emily Dickinson’s plate extends this technical specificity from the austere lace “collar” on her runner into the plate. Lace draping was a popular technique among victorian doll makers. Lace was soaked with porcelain slip then fired, burning away the fabric and leaving lacey porcelain instead. For Chicago, this emblem of Victorian femininity represents the societal restrictions Dickenson faced.Posted by Isabella Kapur Judy Chicago (American, born 1939). Study for Emily Dickinson from The Dinner Party, 1977. Ink, photo, and collage on paper, 23 1/8 x 35 in. (61 x 91.4 cm). National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., Purchase, Members’ Acquisition Fund, 2001.3. © 2017 Judy Chicago / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. (Photo: Lee Stalsworth) -- source link
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