... Chicago had organised the first feminist art course at California State college at Fresno, and her autobiography Through the flower and the Dinner party are the indicators of the feminist art movement in a America4. All of Chicago's work is very controversial, for instance the Dinner party 1979 and the menstruation Bathroom 1972. However the work of Chicago is quite similar to Louise Walsh work of the Monument to the low paid women worker 1993 fig1. Walsh's sculpture of the two women figures sculptured from bronze, are represented as being within a patriarchal economic system5. The theme of the two figures is clear by the use of objects and utensils which are symbolic of women's work, which includes a type writer, a telephone and a shopping basket. The original brief of the women figures was to reflect Amelia Street as a former red light district with the female fig 1. ...

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