Painter, sculptor, feminist, and writer Judy Chicago "is working to change the world with her art," according to art historian Paula Harper in Art in America. "Her almost embarrassing earnestness puts her out of sync with current sensibilities," Harper further explained. "Nevertheless, she seems to be in for the long haul, and she is already guaranteed a place in history as one of the most important socially engaged artists" of the late twentieth century. Known widely for both her art and her feminism, Chicago integrates primarily female sexual imagery and color with traditional women's crafts--such as weaving and embroidery--and fine art media--paint and sculpture--to express woman's innate uniqueness and spiritual freedom. Chicago chooses to elucidate her work by way of publishing journals, statements, and autobiographical materials in an attempt to make her message and intent more accessible and understandable to the viewer and the art community. In her...