Oral history interview with Lucy Lippard
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on Edirol R-09HR on 4 secure digital memory cards. Duration is 4 hr., 29 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Lippard, Lucy R.
label: Interviewer
content: Heinemann, Sue
label: Names
content: Art Workers Coalition
label: Names
content: Elizabeth Murray Oral History of Women in the Visual Arts Project
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content: Guerrilla Art Action Group
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content: Heresies Collective, Inc.
label: Names
content: Heresies Collective, Inc.
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content: Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) -- Employees
label: Names
content: Political Art Documentation/Distribution (Organization)
label: Names
content: Smith College -- Students
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content: Ashton, Dore
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content: Chicago, Judy, 1939-
label: Names
content: Hammond, Harmony
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content: Judd, Donald, 1928-1994
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content: LeWitt, Sol, 1928-2007
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content: Miss, Mary, 1944-
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content: Reinhardt, Ad, 1913-1967
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content: Ryman, Robert, 1930-2019
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content: Schneemann, Carolee, 1939-
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content: Sholette, Gregory
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content: Stevens, May, 1924-2019
topic: label: Occupation
content: Curators -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Occupation
content: Authors -- New York (State) -- New York
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content: Art critics -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Topic
content: Art -- Study and teaching
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content: Art criticism
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content: Feminism and art
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content: Women authors
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content: Women art critics
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content: Women museum curators
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content: Women educators
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: 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.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Lippard, Lucy R.
label: Interviewer
content: Heinemann, Sue
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Lucy R. Lippard (1937- ) is a writer and art critic in New York, N.Y. and Galisteo, N.M.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 4 Items (memory cards (4 hr., 29 min.), secure digital, wav, 1.25 in.)
label: Extent
content: 97 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 2011 Mar. 15
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.lippar11
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content: Collection descriptions
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content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
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content: Sound recordings
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content: Interviews
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Transcript is available on the Archives of American Art's website.
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content: Sound recordings
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content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: 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.
label: Scope and Contents
content: 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.