Correspondence by Subject
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Lippard, Lucy R.
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content: Lucy R. Lippard papers
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content: Lucy R. Lippard papers / Series 2: Correspondence
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1950s-1990s
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.lipplucy, Subseries 2.2
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This series primarily documents Lippard's engagement with social and political issues and groups working for change through activism and art. While much of the content comprises printed material on issues such as artists rights, censorship, U. S. policy in Central America, conceptual art, public art, and reproductive rights, these files are interspersed with correspondence with related individuals including artists, photographic material, and some of Lippard's related notes and writings. For example, folders on conceptual art include a draft manuscript for Lippard's essay Escape Attempts. Folder headings are generally derived from those used by Lippard.

Records on Central America include material relating to the Nicaraguan Cultural Alliance. A group of folders concerning non-U.S. galleries document Lippard's interaction with artists and galleries overseas, including European and Australian galleries and the Centro de Arte y Comunicacíon in Buenos Aires where Lippard's third "numbers show" "2,972,453," was held in 1971.

Note that the 5 folders on "Jobs" relate specifically to work opportunities offered to Lippard such as speaking engagements and participation on committees, juries and panels.

Mail art folders comprise a mixture of printed material including copies of the Balloon Newspaper, and correspondence from mail art and Fluxus artists such as Fletcher Copp and Ken Friedman.

Mail art records also include the results of Ray Johnson's mailing, "Send Slips to Lucy Lippard," which Johnson apparently undertook after Lippard omitted him from her book Pop Art  (1966). Following this "slip" she was the recipient of various interpretations of the word, including an actual slip to wear.

Series includes 1 recording on 1 sound cassette.