Judy Chicago

Her relationship with her husband, Jerry Gerowitz, was reputedly a stormy one; he died in a car crash two years after they married.

Because we are denied knowledge of our history, we are deprived of standing upon each other's shoulders and building upon each other's hard earned accomplishments. Instead we are condemned to repeat what others have done before us and thus we continually reinvent the wheel. The goal of 'The Dinner Party' is to break this cycle.