Lucy R. Lippard

Explores the multiple senses of place in society through cultural studies, history, geography, photography, and contemporary public art

Senses of Place in a Multicentered Society

The Lure of the Local

"Many artists, curators, and cultural critics will be interested in the republication of this anthology since the movement it gives contour to has had a tremendous influence on the contemporary art of the last 25 years, and on the critical discussion surrounding the concept of postmodernism."—Alexander Alberro, coauthor of Tracing Cultures

The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972

Six Years

As Lippard points out, Hesse's use of obsessive repetition in her works served to increase and exaggerate the absurdity she saw in her life. In many ways, her works were ”psychic models,” as Robert Smithson has said, of ”a very interior person.” In pioneering the use of ”soft” materials, her sculptures betrayed her awareness of the manner in which her experience as a woman altered her art and career. Although she died before feminism affected the art world to any great extent, her major works have since become talismans for succeeding generations of women artists. Eva Hesse was designed by Hesse's friends and colleagues Sol LeWitt and Pat Stier; her sculptures, drawings, and paintings are reproduced and discussed; and the text includes numerous quotations from her diaries. First published in 1976 but long out-of-print, this classic text is both an insightful critical analysis and a tribute to an artist whose genius has become increasingly apparent with the passage of time.

Eva Hesse

An expermental novel about mrrors, maps, relatonsps, about te ocean, elusve success and possble appness. Weavng overeard dalogue, sexual encounters, and elements from te I Cng, Tarot, and palmstry, Lppard carts cangng relatonsps among four people. Wrtten n 1970, ts novel brngs to lfe poltcal, femnst and aestetc struggles of ts tme. -- back cover

A Novel

I See/you Mean

Lucy Lippard is one of the most provocative and groundbreaking art critics of the last two decades. A catalyst for social and artistic change, Lippard's writings show the impact of feminism on art, and art on feminism. The Pink Glass Swan brings together Lippard's essays and articles from various magazines, catalogs, and newspapers from the last ten years. Through the eyes of this influential and important critic, The Pink Glass Swan chronicles the sweeping changes in women's art over the last thirty years.

Selected Essays on Feminist Art

The Pink Glass Swan

Christine Redfern

Caro Caron

Ana Mendieta pushed the boundaries of expression as one of the early members of conceptual and performance art movements. This powerful biography tells the fascinating and controversial story of the artist's life and work in graphic format, from her immigration to the US from Cuba to escape the dictatorial regime in 1961, to her groundbreaking artworks which lead to her being one of the only Cuban Americans to have works in museums around the world, to Ana's controversial and tragic death, believed by many to be murder at the hands of her artist husband, Carl Andre.

Who is Ana Mendieta?

Gregory Sholette

Kim Charnley

Activist Art and the Failure of Capitalism

Ante-Matter

Now in paperback, an "insightful" (San Francisco Bay Guardian) look at tourism and nostalgia from the bestselling author and art critic. In Lucy R. Lippard's On the Beaten Track, essays on cultural criticism, anthropology, and community activism are interwoven to examine how tourism sites are conceived and represented, and how they transform their surroundings. Called "stimulating" and "valuable" by Newsday, On the Beaten Track is now available in paperback for the first time. With her characteristic breadth of insight and critical eye, Lippard explores the act of being a tourist in one's own home, the role of advertising and photography in defining place, antique shops as populist museums, and the commodification of indigenous cultures. She discusses the political economies of leisure spaces; the tourist's fascination with tragic destinations such as the sites of massacres, nuclear weapons tests, and Holocaust memorials; and our willingness to let national parks and heritage sites define nature and history. Finally, the author that critic Andrew Ross calls "the most sure-footed tour guide you could hope for" surveys how artists are responding to the environmental, cultural, and political issues surrounding contemporary tourism.

Tourism, Art, and Place

On the Beaten Track

Changing: Essays in Art Criticism

Award-winning author, curator, and activist Lucy R. Lippard is one of America’s most influential writers on contemporary art, a pioneer in the fields of cultural geography, conceptualism, and feminist art. Hailed for "the breadth of her reading and the comprehensiveness with which she considers the things that define place" (The New York Times), Lippard now turns her keen eye to the politics of land use and art in an evolving New West. Working from her own lived experience in a New Mexico village and inspired by gravel pits in the landscape, Lippard weaves a number of fascinating themes—among them fracking, mining, land art, adobe buildings, ruins, Indian land rights, the Old West, tourism, photography, and water—into a tapestry that illuminates the relationship between culture and the land. From threatened Native American sacred sites to the history of uranium mining, she offers a skeptical examination of the "subterranean economy." Featuring more than two hundred gorgeous color images, Undermining is a must-read for anyone eager to explore a new way of understanding the relationship between art and place in a rapidly shifting society.

A Wild Ride in Words and Images through Land Use Politics in the Changing West

Undermining

Essays explore the conception of tourism sites and their impact on the places they transform

Tourism, Art and Place

The author reveals a continuum in materials, forms, symbols and imagery artists have employed over 1000s of years. She shows how contemporary art and prehistoric images are linked, with images of past times being 'overlaid' onto works of today's artists.

Contemporary Art and the Art of Prehistory

Overlay

Lucy Lippard is both one of our finest critics of contemporary art and one of the most perceptive and strongest supporters of women artists. These thirty essays, written since the publication of Changing in 1971, delineate the growth of Lippard's feminism and the present status of women's art. In Lippards words: "...while I wish I could claim that this book established a new feminist criticism, all I can say is that it extends the basic knowledge of art by women, that it provides the raw material for such a development." From the Center is important, stimulating reading for all concerned with the women's art movement. --

Feminist Essays on Women's Art

From the Center

consonni

Paloma Checa-Gismero

Yo veo / Tú significas

Catalogue of a circulating exhibition organized by the Whatcom Museum of History and Art in collaboration with Independant Curators Incorporated.

Vietnam in Art

A Different War

St. Louis Art Museum

Olivia Lahs-Gonzales

From well-known luminaries of the medium such as Arbus, Goldin, Lange, Cunningham, Cindy Sherman and Annie Leibovitz, to far less known figures, this book celebrates the role women have had in shaping photography's vision.

Women Photographers of the 20th Century : Selections from the Helen Kornblum Collection

Defining Eye

William L. Fox

In the summer and fall of 2009 a group of New Mexico arts organizations joined together to present LAND/ART, a large-scale collaboration, which explored the relationship between land, art, and community through exhibitions, site-specificart works, lectures, and performances. Focusing on "environmental" or "Land" art, the collaboration addressed our changing relationship to nature, and to offer a new or previously unconsidered understanding of the places in which we live. This book is the culmination and documentation of this six-month, and features the work of over forty artists including Michael Berman, Erika Blumenfeld, David Taylor, Basia Irland, Patrick Dougherty, Catalina Delgado Trunk, and Shelley Niro. --

LAND/ART New Mexico

Edward Lucie-Smith

Judy Chicago

Viki D. Thompson Wylder

A tribute to the influential contemporary artist and official catalog for the National Museum of Women in the Arts 2002 exhibition considers the key periods that spanned her forty-year career. Original.

Writings about surrealism by painters, poets, and other artists associated with the movement. Several translated from French.

Lucy R. Lippard

About

Books

Join the club