Lippard, Lucy

Date born:  1937

Place Born:  New York, NY

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Feminist art historian.  Lippard was the daughter the dean of Yale University Medical School, of Vernon William Lippard, and Margaret Cross (Lippard).  She married the artist Robert  Ryman in 1961.  Lippard studied at Smith College where she earned a B.A. in 1958. She entered New York University, receiving an M.A. in 1962. Lippard began writing art criticism for Artforum in 1964.  Her first book, The Graphic Work of Philip Evergood, appeared in 1966, which appeared as, Ad Reinhardt: Paintings, for the Jewish Museum in New York the same year. She contributed essays for the exhibition catalog accompanying the show, "The School of Paris: Paintings from the Florene May Schoenborn and Samuel A. Marx Collection," at the Museum of Modern Art .  She was awarded a 1968 Guggenheim fellowship to research a book on the work of Ad Reinhardt.  She received a D. F. A. (doctor of fine arts) from Moore College of Art in 1972.  National Endowment for the Arts grant, 1972-73.  In 1976 she won the Frank Jewett Mather award for art criticism, given by the College Art Association.  A second NEA grant was given her in 1976-77. Her collected essays, From the Center: Feminist Essays on Women's Art, appeared in 1976.  The same year, her sensitive analysis of Eva Hess appeared, which remains her most important book.

Lippard's personal response to art results in her strength as an art historian.  Some reviewers have criticized her for over-simplifying some of the more complex issues of modern art. 

Pop Art (with contributions by Lawrence Alloway, Nancy Marmer, and Nicolas Calas), Praeger (New York), 1966, Thames and Hudson (New York, NY), 1985.

New York 13 (exhibition), Vancouver Art Gallery (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada), 1969.

Changing: Essays in Art Criticism, Dutton (New York), 1971.

(Editor) Surrealists on Art, Prentice-Hall (Englewood Cliffs, NJ), 1971.

(Editor) Dadas on Art, Prentice-Hall, 1972.

(Author of text) Grids grids grids grids grids grids grids grids, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia), 1972.

(Author of text) Tony Smith, Thames & Hudson (New York), 1972.

Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966-1972, Praeger, 1973, University of California Press (Berkeley, CA), 1997.

From the Center: Feminist Essays on Women's Art, Dutton, 1976.

Eva Hesse, New York University Press (New York), 1976, De Capo Press (New York, NY), 1992.

STRATA: Nancy Graves, Eva Hesse, Michelle Stuart, Jackie Winsor, Vancouver Art Gallery (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada), 1977.

(Contributor) Sol Lewitt, Museum of Modern Art, 1978.

I See/You Mean (novel), Chrysalis (Phoenix, AZ), 1979.

(Editor) Issue: Social Strategies by Women Artists: An Exhibition, Institute of Contemporary Arts (London), 1980.

Ad Reinhardt, Abrams (New York), 1981.

(Author of text, with Ricardo Martin-Crosa) Cesar Paternosto: Paintings, 1969-1980, Center for Inter-American Relations (New York), 1981.

Overlay: Contemporary Art and the Art of Prehistory, Pantheon, 1983.

Get the Message?: Activist Essays on Art and Politics, Dutton, 1984.

(Author of essay) Patrick Ireland, Drawings 1965-1985, Smithsonian Institution Press (Washington, DC), 1986.

(Author of essay) Debra Bricker Balken, Patricia Johnson: Drawings and Models for Environmental Projects, 1969-1986, Berkshire Museum (Pittsfield, MA), 1987.

(With Helen A. Harrison) Women Artists of the New Deal Era: A Selection of Prints and Drawings, National Museum of Women in the Arts (Washington, DC), 1988.

(Author of text) A Different War: Vietnam in Art, Real Comet Press (Seattle, WA), 1990.

Mixed Blessings: New Art in a Multicultural America, Pantheon Books (New York), 1990.

(With others, author of essay) Paul Brach, Our Land/Ourselves: American Indian Contemporary Artists: An Exhibition Organized by the University Art Gallery, University at Albany, State University of New York, State University of New York (Albany, NY), 1990.

(With Philip Brookman) June Leaf, a Survey of Paintings, Sculpture, and Works of Paper, 1948-1991, Washington Project for the Arts (Washington, DC), 1991.

(Editor) Partial Recall, New Press (New York), 1992.

Overlay: Contemporary Art and the Art of Prehistory, New Press, 1995.

The Pink Glass Swan: Selected Essays on Feminist Art, New Press, 1995.

(With Russ Immarigeon and Eileen Neff) Prison Sentences: The Prison as Site/the Prison as Subject, Prison Sentences (Philadelphia, PA), 1995.

(Author of essay) Mark Richard Leach and Barbara J. Bloemink, Michael Lucero: Sculpture 1976-1995, Hudson Hills Press (New York, NY), 1996.

The Lure of the Local: Senses of Place in a Multicentered Society, New Press, 1997.

(With Olivia Lahs-Gonzales) Defining Eye: Women Photographers of the 20th Century: Selections from the Helen Kornblum Collection, Saint Louis Art Museum (St. Louis, MO), 1997.

(Author of essay) Tisa Rodriguez Sherman, Emmi Whitehorse, Tucson Museum of Art (Tucson, AZ), 1997.

Florence Pierce: In Touch with Light, Smith Bk F, 1998.

(With others, author of essay) Rimer Cardillo, Rimer Cardillo: Araucaria, Bronx Museum of the Arts (Bronx, NY), 1998.

(Author of essay) Marie Romero Cash, Living Shrines: Home Altars of New Mexico, Museum of New Mexico Press (Santa Fe, NM), 1998.

(With Kent Bloomer) The Permanence of Memory: Maine Veterans and Civilians Remember World War II, Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art (Portland, ME), 1998.

On the Beaten Track: Tourism, Art and Place, Norton, 1999.

(Author of foreword) Dean MacCannell, The Tourist: A New Theory of the Leisure Class, University of California Press (Berkeley, CA), 1999.

(With Vicki D. Wylder) Judy Chicago: Trials and Tributes, Florida State University, Museum of Fine Arts, 1999.

(Contributor) Vicki Halper, Gloria Bornstein: Retelling, 1975-1998, Bellevue Art Museum (Bellevue, WA), 1999.

(With MaLin Wilson-Powell) Kathy Vargas: Photographs, 1971-2000, Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum, University of Texas Press (San Antonio, TX), 2000.

(Author of essays with Tom Hill) Ron Noganosh, Ron Noganosh: It Takes Time, Ottawa Art Gallery (Ottawa, Canada), 2001.

(Author of essay) Russell Panczenko, Peter Gourfain: Clay, Wood, Bronze, and Works on Paper, Elvehjem Museum of Art (Madison, WI), 2002.

(With Edward Lucie-Smith, Viki D. Thompson Wylder, and edited by Elizabeth A. Sackler) Judy Chicago, Watson-Guptill Publications (New York, NY), 2002.

(Author of text) Whitfield Lovell, The Art of Whitfield Lovell: Whispers from the Walls, Pomegranate (San Francisco, CA), 2003.

Contributor to (New York, NY), 1965. Also author or editor of numerous catalogues for art exhibits. Articles anthologized in New Art and Minimal Art, both edited by G. Battcock and published by Dutton. Also editor of many anthologies.

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