The Pink Glass Swan

by Lippard, Lucy R.

• ISBN13: 9781565842137
• ISBN10: 1565842138
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-03-01
• Publisher: New Pr

Summary

Lucy Lippard is one of the most provocative and groundbreaking art critics of the last two decades. A catalyst for social and artistic change, Lippard's writings show the impact of feminism on art, and art on feminism. The Pink Glass Swan brings together Lippard's essays and articles from various magazines, catalogs, and newspapers from the last ten years. Through the eyes of this influential and important critic, The Pink Glass Swan chronicles the sweeping changes in women's art over the last thirty years.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Moving Targets/Concentric Circles: Notes from the Radical Whirlwind	3	(31)
Part I: From the Center, 1970--1975
Changing Since Changing	31	(11)
Sexual Politics: Art Style	42	(8)
Prefaces to Catalogs of Three Women's Exhibitions	50	(12)
Household Images in Art	62	(4)
Fragments	66	(11)
Six	77	(3)
The Women Artists' Movement---What Next?	80	(4)
The L.A. Woman's Building	84	(5)
Making Up: Role-Playing and Transformation in Women's Art	89	(10)
The Pains and Pleasures of Rebirth: European and American Women's Body Art	99	(18)
Part II: Get the Message? 1976--1980
The Pink Glass Swan: Upward and Downward Mobility in the Art World	117	(11)
Making Something from Nothing (Toward a Definition of Women's ``Hobby Art'')	128	(11)
Some Propaganda for Propaganda	139	(11)
Issue and Taboo	150	(21)
Sweeping Exchanges: The Contribution of Feminism to the Art of the 1970s	171	(12)
Rejecting Retrochic	183	(9)
New York Times IV	192	(11)
Part III: More Heresies 1981--1993
Clash of '85	203	(5)
Feminist Space: Reclaiming Territory	208	(15)
First Strike for Peace	223	(5)
Women Confront the Bomb	228	(3)
All's Fair	231	(7)
The Politically Passionate	238	(5)
Rape: Show and Tell	243	(5)
Equal Parts	248	(6)
Guerrilla Girls	254	(4)
The Garbage Girls	258	(8)
Both Sides Now: A Reprise	266	(12)
Double Vision: Women of Sweetgrass, Cedar, and Sage	278	(10)
Out of Turn	288	(8)
Art in a Multicultural America: An Interview with Lucy R. Lippard	296	(14)
Neery Melkonian
Undertones: Nine Cultural Landscapes	310	(15)
Endnotes	325	(6)
Index	331