Lucy Lippard

Lucy R. Lippard is a contemporary writer, activist, and sometime curator best known for her study of conceptual art in Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972 and for her writing on feminist art and politically engaged art. She has published twenty-eight books, with two forthcoming, and has organized some fifty exhibitions and cofounded Ad Hoc Women Artists, Heresies: A Journal of Art and Politics, the artists’ book center Printed Matter, and the activist group PAD/D (Political Art Documentation/Distribution). Her many honors include the Women’s Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award and nine honorary degrees.