The Pink Glass Swan: Selected Essays on Feminist Art - Softcover

Lippard, Lucy R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1565842138 ISBN 13: 9781565842137

Publisher: The New Press, 1995

Synopsis

In the 1970s, Lucy R. Lippard, author of the highly original and popular Mixed Blessings, merged her art-world concerns with those of the then-fledgling women’s movement. In a career that spans sixteen books and scores of articles, catalogs, and essays on art, political activism, feminism, and multiculturalism, her engaging and provocative writings have heralded a new way of thinking about art and its role in the feminist movement.

This new collection of previously published essays covers more than two decades of Lippard’s thinking on the ever-evolving definitions of feminist art, the convergence of high and low art, political and activist art, and the contributions of feminist theory to the politics of identity that infuses the production and exhibition of much of today’s fine and popular art.

With a new introduction from the author, The Pink Glass Swan brings together selections from two of Lippard’s leading works, From the Center: Feminist Essays on Art and Get the Message?: A Decade of Art for Social Change, and numerous other articles written for newspapers, magazines, and art catalogs across the country.

About this title

About the Author:

Lucy R. Lippard is an internationally known writer, activist, and curator. She has authored twenty-three books, has curated more than fifty major exhibitions, and holds nine honorary doctorates of fine arts. Her books include The Lure of the Local, Partial Recall, The Pink Glass Swan, Mixed Blessings, On the Beaten Track, and Overlay, all published by The New Press. Lippard is the recipient of numerous awards, most recently the Carolyn Bancroft History Prize from the Denver Public Library and grants from Creative Capital and the Lannan Foundation. She lives in New Mexico.

From Publishers Weekly:

Ostensibly the topic of these essays is women and contemporary art; however, given the author's own activism, it offers a much broader reading of alternative culture, its politics and practices. A feminist and journalist, Lippard has been penning her accounts of the art world with the acumen of an experienced foot soldier since the early '70s. This collection brings together works from various publications, including the Village Voice, Z and the Nation, along with selections from three of Lippard's previous books, including From the Center: Feminist Essays on Woman's Art. What begins with a commitment to art by women, evolves into an even more radical commitment to change. Having initially worked as a writer in New York to bring women into the mainstream, Lippard ends up establishing herself firmly in the margins: her most recent essays champion global cross-cultural exchanges that take place well outside the limits of the established art world. Her subjects include the well-known feminist artist Judy Chicago and the infamous Guerrilla Girls, as well as the less-known "Garbage Girls" (artists who make art from trash). Her frankly opinionated writing is clear and concise, characterized by a welcome sense of critical flexibility. Lippard calls it as she sees it?albeit sometimes mistakenly?to make accessible the work and politics of many vital and lesser-known artists working today.
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About this edition

• Publisher: The New Press
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 1565842138
• ISBN 13: 9781565842137
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336