Lucy Lippard is one of the most provocative and groundbreaking art critics of the last two decades. A catalyst for social and artistic change, Lippard's writings show the impact of feminism on art, and art on feminism. The Pink Glass Swan brings together Lippard's essays and articles from various magazines, catalogs, and newspapers from the last ten years. Through the eyes of this influential and important critic, The Pink Glass Swan chronicles the sweeping changes in women's art over the last thirty years.
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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.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
Lippard is an eminent art activist, organizer, writer, critic, curator, lecturer, propagandist, and sometimes performance artist who has been committing her vociferous artistic and political views to print since the 1960s. This volume reprints 30 of her many essays originating in From the Center: Feminist Essays on Women's Art (1976), Get the Message?: Activist Essays on Art & Politics (1984), the Village Voice, and elsewhere. The important introduction records her latest (mellowing?) thought and traces the significant part she has played in the feminist art movement. (Most of the feminist artworks peppering her text are up to date, many from the 1990s.) Considered controversial and radical?and perhaps still so to the uninitiated reader?this snappy but occasionally repetitive prose seems mostly right on target, the voice of a maturing idealist committed to eliminating all artistic, cultural, and institutional sexism, racism, ethnocentrism, ghettoization, and marginalization. Lippard is neither a deconstructionist nor an essentialist but a self-styled Socialist feminist, albeit a romantic one, and a cultural feminist, albeit a quasi-Marxist one. Necessary for most art and all feminist collections.?Mary Hamel-Schwulst, Towson State Univ., Md.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
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Excellent for the begginning feminist,
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This review is from: The Pink Glass Swan: Selected Essays on Feminist Art (Paperback)
As a young college student and newly marked feminist this book filled in important gaps surrounding women's art and feminism that was lacking in my male-dominated art history classes. It gave me a sense of history and brought up many issues in feminist art I had not yet discovered. It also sent me to library to look up many female artists in hope to find more information. The book was very easy to read and wasn't weighted down with to much academia.
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A powerful work,
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This review is from: The Pink Glass Swan: Selected Essays on Feminist Art (Paperback)
This book is must for women artists, either young or firmly established. Originally published as From The Center, it helped me to understand my relationship to my artwork and my work's relationship to the various aspects of the larger art world. When I was attending art school, all my fellow women grad students read this book and, interestingly, responded enthusiastically to different sections. Lippard is a grounded, intelligent writer with a wry sense of humor and has a keen sense of observation. Her other books are also excellent, especially Overlay: Contemporary Art and the Art of Prehistory and Sense of Place.
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Great Feminist and Art theory,
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This is an excellent anthology of Lippard's essays. I found it especially helpful as I am writing a thesis on "third wave" feminist art. Her essays are thoughtful and insightful without being full of jargon, so even those with no background in feminist theory can get the gist of the writing. Its great to be able to read the oldies and see how much has- and sadly, hasn't- changed. Most interesting are Lippard's updates and introductions to the older essays, in which she prefaces them with how her thoughts on the topics have changed or shifted since the essays were written.
This is a really thorough and broad reaching book on art and feminism.I highly suggest it for all feminist artists (especially younger ones who missed the first wave) and those who study feminism and/or art.
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