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born 1937 United States
Lucy R. Lippard (born April 14, 1937) is an internationally known writer, art critic, activist and curator from the United States.
- United States
- Conceptual artists
- Journalists
Also known as: Lucy Lippard
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Conceptual art, for me, means work in which the idea is paramount and the material form is secondary, lightweight, ephemeral, cheap, unpretentious and/or "dematerialized."
Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972 (1973)
Travel is the only context in which some people ever look around. If we spent half the energy looking at our own neighborhoods, we'd probably learn twice as much.
An Eskimo custom offers an angry person release by walking the emotion out of his or her system in a straight line across the landscape; the point at which the anger is conquered is marked with a stick, bearing witness to the strength or length of the rage.
Rebecca Solnit (2001)
The era of Conceptual art - which was also the era of the Civil Rights Movement,. Vietnam, the Women's Liberation Movement, and the counter-culture- was a real.
Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972 (1973)
Conceptual Art in the broadest sense was a kind of laboratory for innovations in the rest of the century. An unconscious international energy emerged from the raw materials of friendship, art history, interdisciplinary readings and a fervor to change the world and the ways artists related to it.