The Dinner Party

01Chicago's 'The Dinner Party' features 39 ceramic vulva-plates for women including Sojourner Truth, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Virginia Woolf.
02The installation required over 400 volunteer workers and five years of labor before its 1979 debut at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
03The Heritage Floor beneath the table lists 999 additional women's names in gold on porcelain tiles — women who didn't even get a plate.

General Tomoyuki Yamashita

A mangle being used in a domestic science course during World War II

Judy Chicago spent five years building a triangular table setting for 39 women erased from history — each place set with a hand-painted ceramic plate whose center is an explicit vulva. Virginia Woolf's plate took three years alone.