18 Facts About Lucy Lippard

Lucy Rowland Lippard was born on April 14,1937 and is an American writer, art critic, activist, and curator.

Lucy Lippard is the author of 21 books on contemporary art and has received numerous awards and accolades from literary critics and art associations.

Lucy Lippard was born in New York City and lived in New Orleans and Charlottesville, Virginia, before enrolling at Abbot Academy in 1952.

Lucy Lippard went on to earn an M A in art history in 1962 from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University.

Just out of college, Lucy Lippard began working in the library at the Museum of Modern Art in 1958 where, in addition to reshelving the library after a fire, she was "farmed out" to do research for curators.

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Since 1966, Lucy Lippard has published 20 books—including one novel—on feminism, art, politics and place.

Lucy Lippard has received numerous awards and accolades from literary critics and art associations.

Lucy Lippard was a member of the populist political artist group known as the Art Workers Coalition, or AWC.

Lucy Lippard is believed to be a co-founder of West-East Bag, an international women artist network which was founded in 1971, in the early beginnings of the feminist art movement in the United States.

In 1975, Lucy Lippard travelled to Australia and spoke to groups of women artists in Melbourne and Adelaide about the creation of archives of women artists' work on photographic slides, known as slide registers, by West-East Bag, the idea being to counteract their lack of showings in art galleries.

Lucy Lippard was a major influence in the establishment of the Women's Art Movement in Australia, and developed a friendship with leading proponent Vivienne Binns, who later visited New York.

In 1976, Lucy Lippard published a monographic work on the sculptor Eva Hesse combining biography and criticism, formal analysis and psychological readings to tell the story of her life and career.

Lucy Lippard writes about the achievements and many struggles in Hesse's life that had an impact on who she was as a person.

Lucy Lippard further writes that although Hesse died before feminism affected the art world, she was well aware of the manner in which her experience as a woman altered her art and her career.

In writing this important work on Eva Hesse, Lucy Lippard has tapped into her knowledge of and passion for feminism, particularly within the art world.

Lucy Lippard has infused aesthetics with politics, and disdained disinterestedness for ethical activism.

In 1966, Lucy Lippard organized the exhibition Eccentric Abstraction at Fischback Gallery in New York.

Lucy Lippard holds nine honorary doctorates of fine arts, of which some are listed below.