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. Activism, in a general sense, can be described as intentional action to bring about social or political change. ... A curator of a cultural heritage institution (e. ... Joseph Kosuth, One and Three Chairs (1965) Conceptual art is art in which the concept(s) or idea(s) involved in the work take precedence over traditional aesthetic and material concerns. ... Feminism is a social theory and political movement primarily informed and motivated by the experience of women. ... Contemporary art refers to recently produced visual art. ... Guggenheim Fellowships are awarded annually by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts. ... The National Endowment for the Arts is a United States federally funded program that offers support and funding for projects that exhibit artistic excellence. ... Art In America, published since 1913, is an illustrated monthly art magazine covering the visual art world both in the US and abroad, but concentrating on New York City. ... The Village Voice is a weekly newspaper in New York City featuring investigative articles, analysis of current affairs and culture, arts reviews and events listings for New York City. ... In These Times is a biweekly magazine of news and opinion published in Chicago. ... Z Magazine is an independent monthly magazine focusing on political, cultural, social, and economic life in the United States and considered to be very left-wing. ...

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. Nickname: Big Apple, Gotham, NYC, City That Never Sleeps, The Concrete Jungle, The City So Nice They Named It Twice Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs The Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens Staten Island Settled 1613  - Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area    - City... Nickname: The Crescent City, The Big Easy, The City That Care Forgot, NOLA (acronym for New Orleans, LA) Location in the State of Louisiana and the United States Coordinates: Country United States State Louisiana Parish Orleans Founded 1718  - Mayor Ray Nagin (D) Area    - City  350. ... Nickname: C-Ville Location in the Commonwealth of Virginia Coordinates: Country United States State Virginia County Albemarle County Founded 1762  - Mayor David E. Brown Area    - City 26. ... Phillips Academy (also known as Andover, Phillips Andover, or simply PA) is a coed high school for boarding and day students grades 9-12 located in Andover, Massachusetts, near Boston. ... Smith College, located in Northampton, Massachusetts, is the largest womens college in the United States []. Smith admits only female undergraduates, but admits both men and women as graduate students. ... American Friends Service Committee logo The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) is a Religious Society of Friends (Quaker) affiliated organization which works for social justice, peace and reconciliation, abolition of the death penalty, and human rights, and provides humanitarian relief. ... This article lacks information on the importance of the subject matter. ... New York University (NYU) is a major research university in New York City. ... Georgetown is a town in Sagadahoc County, Maine, United States. ...

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." Guggenheim Fellowships are awarded annually by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts. ... Feminism is a collection of social theories, political movements, and moral philosophies largely motivated by or concerned with the liberation of women. ...

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. Map of Central America Central America is the central geographic region of the Americas. ... A street musician with accordion in Bremen A performance comprises an event in which generally one group of people (the performer or performers) behave in a particular way for the benefit of another group of people (the viewer or viewers, or audience). ... Galisteo is a census-designated place located in Santa Fe County, New Mexico. ... The Parthenons facade showing an interpretation of golden rectangles in its proportions. ... Ethics is a general term for what is often described as the science (study) of morality. In philosophy, ethical behavior is that which is good or right. ... Activism, in a general sense, can be described as intentional action to bring about social or political change. ...

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)

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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