Multimedia Collection
Judy Chicago & The California Girls
DVD
27 min
2007
N6537 .C48 J8 2007 DVD
Judy Chicago & The California Girls is a lively and engaging documentary on a significant moment in the history of feminist art and pedagogy. Filmaker Judith Dancoff gets lots of credit for recognizing and preserving a unique moment in the history of American art.
Judy Chicago & The California Girls is an historical documentary by and about women, at the birth of the Women's Art Movement. An important document of the art and ideas of early 70's feminism, the film explores the day-to-day life of the first all-women art program in the United States. Highlights of the film include a visit by feminist theorist Ti-Grace Atkinson, Chicago's early performance pieces the Cock Cunt play and the Cunt Cheer, and the beginning of the philosophy that would shape the artist's later works Womanhouse and The Dinner Party. Some of Chicago's students who appear in the film and have become important national and international artists in their own right include Vanalyne Green, Suzanne Lacy, Faith Wilding, and Nancy Youdeman.
Distributed by California Girl Productions.
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