Oral history interview with Lucy Lippard, 2011 Mar. 15

Object Details

Place of publication, production, or execution

New Mexico

Physical Description

4 Items, memory cards (4 hr., 29 min.), secure digital, wav, 1.25 in.; 97 Pages, Transcript

General Note

Originally recorded on Edirol R-09HR on 4 secure digital memory cards. Duration is 4 hr., 29 min.

Access Note / Rights

This transcript is open for research. Access to the entire recording is restricted. Contact Reference Services for more information.

Summary

An interview with Lucy Lippard conducted 2011 Mar. 15, by Sue Heinemann, for the Archives of American Art's Elizabeth Murray Oral History of Women in the Visual Arts project, at Lippard's home, in Galisteo, N.M.

Lippard discusses her childhood summers in Maine; growing up in New Orleans, La., and Charlottesville, Va.; attending the Abbot Academy and Smith College; her junior year in Paris; working in the Museum of Modern Art Library; living on Avenue D; meeting Bob Ryman and Sol Lewitt; birth of her son Ethan; Dore Ashton as a role model; involvement with various groups and political causes including the Angry Arts movement, the Art Workers' Coalition, Women Artists' Committee, Guerilla Art Action Group, Womanhouse, Political Art Documentation and Distribution (PAD/D), the Ad Hoc Women Artists Committee, and others; the development of Heresies Collective; her publications including, "From the Center: Feminist Essays on Women's Art," (1976), "On the Beaten Track: Tourism, Art and Place," (1999), "Mixed Blessings: New Art in a Multicultural America," (1990, 2000), "The Lure of the Local: Sense of Place in a Multicentered Society," (1997), and "Overlay: Contemporary Art and the Art of Prehistory," (1983) ; curating exhibitions; travels to Argentina and Mexico; moving to Galisteo, N.M.; interest in the Galisteo Basin; teaching; and other topics. She recalls Ad Reinhardt, Donald Judd, Harmony Hammond, Judy Chicago, Gregory Sholette, Carolee Schneemann, Max Koszloff, Joyce Koszloff, May Stevens, Betsy Hess, Mary Miss, and others.

Citation

Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Lucy Lippard, 2011 Mar. 15. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Additional Forms

Transcript is available on the Archives of American Art's website.

Funding

This interview is part of the Elizabeth Murray Oral History of Women in the Visual Arts Project, funded by the A G Foundation.

Biography Note

Lucy R. Lippard (1937- ) is a writer and art critic in New York, N.Y. and Galisteo, N.M.

Language Note

English .

Provenance

This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and administrators.

Location Note

Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 750 9th St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20001

Data Source

Archives of American Art

Record number

(DSI-AAA_CollID)15936

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)300230

AAA_collcode_lippar11

interviewee

Lippard, Lucy R.

interviewer

Heinemann, Sue

Subject

Ashton, Dore

Chicago, Judy

Hammond, Harmony

Judd, Donald

LeWitt, Sol

Miss, Mary

Reinhardt, Ad

Ryman, Robert

Schneemann, Carolee

Sholette, Gregory

Stevens, May

Elizabeth Murray Oral History of Women in the Visual Arts Project

Art Workers Coalition

Guerrilla Art Action Group

Heresies Collective, Inc.

Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)

Political Art Documentation/Distribution (Organization)

Smith College

Heresies Collective, Inc.

Type

Sound recordings

Interviews

Theme

Women

Topic

Art -- Study and teaching

Art criticism

Feminism and art

Women authors

Women art critics

Women museum curators

Women educators

Theme

Women

Record ID

AAADCD_oh_300230

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