Lippard, Lucy (1937 - )

Genre: Non-Fiction

Lucy Lippard was born in NYC, lives in Galisteo, Mexico and summers in Georgetown, ME. She received her BA from Smith College and an MA from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University. She writes about feminism, art, politics and place, is the co-founder of Printed Matter, an art bookstore in NYC as well as several artist and activist organizations. Her art criticism has appeared in Art in America, The Village Voice, In These Times and Z Magazine. She has won several awards as well as an honorary degree from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design.

Selected Bibliography

  • Overlay: Contemporary Art and the Art of Prehistory (1983)
  • Pop Art (1985)
  • A Different War: Vietnam in Art (1990)
  • Eva Hesse (1992)
  • Partial Recall (ed.)(1992)
  • The Pink Glass Swan: Selected Essays on Feminist Art (1995)
  • The Lure of the Local: Senses of Place in a Multicentered Society (1997)
  • Permanence of memory: Maine Veterans and Civilians Remember World War II: A Public Work (1998)
  • Mixed Blessings: New Art in a Multicultural America (2000)
  • Judy Chicago (2002)
  • Maine Women: Living on the Land/Lauren Shaw (2005)