Lucy Lippard
Lucy Lippard is an American art critic, curator, and activist whose writing and exhibitions helped define conceptual art and feminist art.
Sol LeWitt: Sol LeWitt was an American artist whose wall drawings and texts made ideas central to artmaking. Lippard championed LeWitt’s conceptual art in her criticism and exhibitions.
Conceptual art: Conceptual art is art in which the idea or procedure takes precedence over the finished physical object. Lippard’s criticism and exhibitions helped establish this movement’s history.
Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object: Six Years is Lucy Lippard’s 1973 book documenting conceptual art from 1966 to 1972 through texts, images, and records. It is her defining account of conceptual art’s rapid development.
Dematerialization of the art object: Dematerialization of the art object describes a shift toward ideas, instructions, documents, and actions over lasting physical artworks. Lippard’s writing gave this shift a widely used historical framework.
Judy Chicago: Judy Chicago is an American feminist artist known for collaborative projects and installations such as The Dinner Party. Lippard wrote about Chicago’s feminist art and the movement’s institutions.
Feminist art movement: The feminist art movement challenged gender inequality in art and developed new forms, institutions, and historical accounts. Lippard helped organize and document this movement in the United States.
From the Center: Feminist Essays on Women's Art: From the Center is Lucy Lippard’s collection of essays on feminist art, artists, and criticism, published in 1976. The essays show how she joined art criticism to feminist analysis.
Feminist art criticism: Feminist art criticism examines how gender and power shape art, its interpretation, and its institutions. Lippard helped make feminist analysis part of contemporary art criticism.
Miriam Schapiro: Miriam Schapiro was an American feminist artist who helped develop pattern-and-decoration art and feminist art education. Lippard’s feminist criticism engaged the artistic movement Schapiro helped shape.
Art Workers' Coalition: The Art Workers' Coalition was a New York activist group that demanded institutional reform from art museums around 1969. Lippard joined its efforts to challenge museum policies and exclusions.