- Lucy R. Lippard
Lucy Lippard (born 1937 in
New York City ) is an internationally known writer,activist andcurator from theUnited States . Lippard was among the first writers to recognize the de-materialization at work inconceptual art and was an early champion offeminist art. She is the author of eighteen books oncontemporary art , and the recipient of a 1968Guggenheim Fellowship , theFrank Mather Award for Criticism from the College Art Association, and twoNational 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 ".Life and work
Lucy Lippard was born in
New York City and lived in New Orleans andCharlottesville, Virginia , before enrolling atAbbot Academy in 1952. After earning a B.A. degree fromSmith College , she worked with theAmerican Friends Service Committee in aMexican village —- a first and crucial experience of a foreign nation. Later, she earned an M.A. degree in art history from theInstitute of Fine Arts atNew York University .In 1968, she received a
Guggenheim Fellowship . Since 1966, Lippard has published 20 books onfeminism , art, politics and place and has received numerous awards and accolades from literary critics and art associations.Co-founder of
Printed Matter , theHeresies Collective , Political Art Documentation/Distribution, Artists Call Against U.S. Intervention inCentral America , and other artists' organizations, she has also curated over 50 exhibitions, doneperformances , comics,guerrilla theater , and edited several independent publications the latest of which is the decidedly local "La Puente de Galisteo" in her home community inGalisteo, New Mexico . She has infusedaesthetics with politics, and disdained disinterestedness forethical activism .In 2007 Lippard was awarded an honorary degree from the
Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD University), Doctor of Fine Arts, "honoris causa".elected publications
*On the Beaten Track: Tourism, Art and Place (1999)
* (1997)
*Defining Eye: Women Photographers of the 20th Century (1997)
*Michael Lucero: Sculpture (1996)
*Contact Lenses, Corrected Vision, "Nueva Luz" photographic journal( [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/En_Foco En Foco, Inc] , 1995)
*The Pink Glass Swan: Selected Essays onFeminist 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 andAlison Saar (1990)
*Mixed Blessings: New Art in a Multicultural America (1990, 2000)
*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 inArt criticism (1971)
*Dada s on Art (ed.) (1971)
*Surrealist s on Art (ed.) (1970)
*Pop Art (1966)
*The Graphic Work ofPhilip Evergood (1966)External links
* [http://www.andover.edu/publications/2001winter_bulletin/author/author2.htm "Finding Her Place" "Author, Author", by Kennan Daniel, Phillips Academy Bulletin, Winter 2001]
* [http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/findingaids/lipplucy.htm Lucy R. Lippard Papers, circa 1940-1995, Smithsonian Archives of American Art]
* [http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/findingaids/index.cfm/fuseaction/Items.BrowseItems/filter_type/Collection/filter_key/7895/search_letter/ Lucy R. Lippard papers: Images, Smithsonian Archives of American Art]
* [http://www.vdb.org/smackn.acgi$q?118 Lucy Lippard 1974: An Interview]
* [http://www.gf.org/68fellow.html Guggenheim Fellows for 1968]
* [http://www.collegeart.org/awards/info-mather.html Frank Jewett Mather Award for Criticism from the College Art Association]
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