On the Beaten Track

by Lippard, Lucy R.

• ISBN13: 9781565846395
• ISBN10: 1565846397
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-09-01
• Publisher: New Pr

Summary

Now in paperback, an "insightful" (San Francisco Bay Guardian) look at tourism and nostalgia from the bestselling author and art critic. In Lucy R. Lippard's On the Beaten Track, essays on cultural criticism, anthropology, and community activism are interwoven to examine how tourism sites are conceived and represented, and how they transform their surroundings. Called "stimulating" and "valuable" by Newsday, On the Beaten Track is now available in paperback for the first time. With her characteristic breadth of insight and critical eye, Lippard explores the act of being a tourist in one's own home, the role of advertising and photography in defining place, antique shops as populist museums, and the commodification of indigenous cultures. She discusses the political economies of leisure spaces; the tourist's fascination with tragic destinations such as the sites of massacres, nuclear weapons tests, and Holocaust memorials; and our willingness to let national parks and heritage sites define nature and history. Finally, the author that critic Andrew Ross calls "the most sure-footed tour guide you could hope for" surveys how artists are responding to the environmental, cultural, and political issues surrounding contemporary tourism.

Author Biography

Lucy Lippard is writer, activist, and curator. She is the author of eighteen books on contemporary art, and the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Frank Mather Award for Criticism from the College Art Association, and two National Endowment for the Arts grants in criticism

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. x
Introduction: On Rubbernecking	p. 2
The Tourist at Home	p. 12
Trespassing on Common Ground: A Case Study	p. 24
Surprise Packages	p. 33
Seduction and Hyperbole	p. 50
Santa Fe's Tricultural Trip	p. 59
Crossroads Everywhere: Cultural Tourism	p. 72
Exhibitionism	p. 88
Curiouser and Curiouser	p. 103
Tragic Tourism	p. 118
Parking Places	p. 135
Taken Aback, or, The Nostalgia Trap	p. 153
Notes	p. 165
Bibliography	p. 175
Index	p. 178
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