Judy Chicago

by Lucy R. Lippard, Viki D. Thompson Wylder, Edward Lucie-Smith

A tribute to the influential contemporary artist and official catalog for the National Museum of Women in the Arts 2002 exhibition considers the key periods that spanned her forty-year career. Original.

Genres: Art, Womens

144 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 2002

About the author

Since 1966, Lippard has published 20 books on feminism, art, politics and place and has received numerous awards and accolades from literary critics and art associations. A 2012 exhibition on her seminal book, Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object at the Brooklyn Museum, titled "Six Years": Lucy R. Lippard and the Emergence of Conceptual Art", cites Lippard's scholarship as its point of entry into a discussion about conceptual art during its era of emergence, demonstrating her crucial role in the contemporary understanding of this period of art production and criticism. Her research on the move toward dematerialization in art making has formed a cornerstone of contemporary art scholarship and discourse.

Co-founder of Printed matter (an art bookstore in New York City centered around artist's books), the Heresies Collective, Political Art Documentation/Distribution (PAD/D), Artists Call Against U.S. Intervention in Central America, and other artists' organizations, she has also curated over 50 exhibitions, done performances, comics, guerrilla theater, and edited several independent publications the latest of which is the decidedly local La Puente de Galisteo in her home community in Galisteo, New Mexico. She has infused aesthetics with politics, and disdained disinterestedness for ethical activism.

Reviews

[Boszka · Rating 2 out of 5]

On the plus side, this book made me want to read more about herstory and women artists & feminist art. The most interesting part is the interview (Lucy Lippard and Judy Chicago discussing several topics related to JC's work). I found the other texts less interesting. (The images included are also interesting but the book is not a comprehensive collection of Judy Chicago's artworks.)

To people who might want to buy this book: this edition is edited by Elizabeth A. Sackler, president of the Arthur M. Sackler foundation - a foundation established by the Sackler family, who are known for making billions by selling oxycontin (see also: the US's opioid crisis & Purdue Pharma's role in it).