Lucy R. Lippard
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Lucy Lippard is an internationally known writer, activist and curator from the United States. Lippard was among the first writers to recognize the de-materialization at work in conceptual art and was an early champion of feminist art. She is the author of eighteen books on contemporary art, and the recipient of a 1968 Guggenheim Fellowship, the Frank Mather Award for Criticism from the College Art Association, and two National Endowment for the Arts grants in criticism. She has written art criticism for Art in America, The Village Voice, In These Times, and Z Magazine.
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[edit] Early life
Lippard was born in New York City and lived in New Orleans and Charlottesville, Virginia, before enrolling at Abbot Academy in 1952. After earning a B.A. degree from Smith College, she worked with the American Friends Service Committee in a Mexican village —- a first and crucial experience of a foreign nation. Later, she earned an M.A. degree in art history from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University. Part of every summer of her life has been spent in Georgetown, Maine. "I would venture to say that places have profoundly influenced my life, probably more than people have," she says.
[edit] Publishing career
In 1968, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship. Since 1966, Lippard has published 20 books on feminism, art, politics and place and has received numerous awards and accolades from literary critics and art associations. "The art world never turned me on much," she says, "but I liked writing about art because of the challenge; it's almost impossible to put the visual into words."
Co-founder of Printed Matter, the Heresies Collective, Political Art Documentation/Distribution, Artists Call Against U.S. Intervention in Central America, and other artists' organizations, she has also curated over 50 exhibitions, done performances, comics, guerrilla theater, and edited several independent publications the latest of which is the decidedly local La Puente de Galisteo in her home community in Galisteo, New Mexico. She has infused aesthetics with politics, and disdained disinterestedness for ethical activism.
[edit] Selected publications
- On the Beaten Track: Tourism, Art and Place (1999)
- The Lure of the Local: Sense of Place in a Multicentered Society (1997)
- Defining Eye: Women Photographers of the 20th Century (1997)
- Michael Lucero: Sculpture (1996)
- The Pink Glass Swan: Selected Essays on Feminist Art (1995)
- Partial Recall: Photographs of Native North Americans (ed.) (1992)
- A Different War: Vietnam in Art (1990)
- Secrets, Dialogues, Revelations: The Art of Betye and Alison Saar (1990)
- Mixed Blessings: New Art in a Multicultural America (1990)
- Jerry Kearns (1987)
- Get the Message: A Decade of Art for Social Change (1984)
- Overlay: Contemporary Art and the Art of Prehistory (1983)
- Collected Visions: Work by Women Artists Living in Rural New York State (1982)
- Ad Reinhardt (1981)
- Intricate Structure (1980)
- Issue: Social Strategies by Women Artists (1980)
- Sol LeWitt (1978)
- From the Center: Feminist Essays on Women's Art (1976)
- Eva Hesse (1976)
- Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object (1973)
- Tony Smith (1972)
- I See/You Mean (novel)
- Changing Essays in Art Criticism (1971)
- Dadas on Art (ed.) (1971)
- Surrealists on Art (ed.) (1970)
- Pop Art (1966)
- The Graphic Work of Philip Evergood (1966)
[edit] External links
- "Finding Her Place" Author, Author, by Kennan Daniel, Phillips Academy Bulletin, Winter 2001
- Lucy R. Lippard Papers, circa 1940-1995, Smithsonian Archives of American Art
- Lucy R. Lippard papers: Images, Smithsonian Archives of American Art
- Lucy Lippard 1974: An Interview
- Guggenheim Fellows for 1968
- Frank Jewett Mather Award for Criticism from the College Art Association
