JuC 983 Potent Pussy/Homage to Lamont — Chicago in Ink: An Autobiography

Judy Chicago

Potent Pussy/Homage to Lamont, 1973
Lithograph on paper

Cover Dimensions:
12 x 12 inches
(30.5 x 30.5 cm)
Image Dimensions:
6 x 6 inches
(15.2 x 15.2 cm)

TP1, Edition of 7, 1AP, 1PP
2 complete sets remaining

Signed “Judy Chicago 1973” bottom right

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Chicago has always maintained that feminism is a politics that encompasses all creatures, human and non-human alike. Lamont, Chicago’s beloved cat who had passed away, was immortalized alongside Chicago’s central core imagery, suggesting not only feminism’s applicability to all creatures, but also that love and attachment (with pets or with people) represent a feminist praxis. Chicago writes of her politicized relationship with her cats in her book Kitty City: A Feline Book of Hours, “One might say that through my work, I have often tried to act as an advocate for voiceless creatures, none more vulnerable than other species.”

Printed at Western Washington State College, Bellingham, WA