Name: Openings: A Memoir from the Women's Art Movement, New York City 1970-1992
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Author: Lucy R. Lippard
ISBN: 9781613320181

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Openings: A Memoir from the Women's Art Movement, New York City 1970-1992

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Physical Book

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Language

English

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

23.1x19.1x2.5 cm

Weight

0.75 kg.

ISBN13

9781613320181

Synopsis "Openings: A Memoir from the Women's Art Movement, New York City 1970-1992"

An account of the women's art movement in New York City from 1970 to 1992 and how these women created politically and personally effective art works, exhibitions, actions, and institutions This abundantly illustrated personal narrative takes readers through twenty-two years of activism in the women's art movements in New York City during a period of great cultural change. Author Sabra Moore vividly recounts life in this era of social upheaval in which women artists responded to war, racial tension and reconciliation, cultural and aesthetic inequality, and struggles for reproductive freedom. We learn intimately how she and fellow women artists found ways to create politically and personally effective art works, exhibitions, actions, and institutions.The book features Moore's involvement in pivotal art organizations of this time and her own development as an artist, counterbalanced with her connections to family in rural East Texas and friends in New Mexico. Moore was a member of the Heresies Collective, an influential feminist activist group, became editor of their art and politics journal Heresies, and was president of the NYC/Women's Caucus for Art. She helped coordinate and curate many of the earliest large-scale exhibitions of women artists in NYC, including Views by Women Artists (1982), and the collaborative shows Reconstruction Project and Connections Project/Conexus. Moore was a principle organizer of the 1984 demonstration against MoMA over their lack of inclusion of women artists and was a member of various groundbreaking collaborative arts groups in the 1970s, including Atlantic Gallery and WAR (Women Artists in Revolution).While Openings is an historical narrative of women artists' actions, organizations, and ideas, it also candidly describes their periods of challenge, including the death of sculptor Ana Mendieta and the indictment of her husband and the author's own attempted murder by her former art teacher.The book is illustrated throughout by a treasure of 950 color and black & white images of the art from this momentous period: a valuable collection that is concurrently being archived by Barnard College along with papers, letters, show cards, posters, original artworks, and other documents.This eye-opening book includes forewords by renowned art critic Lucy Lippard and poet/activist Margaret Randall.

Lucy R. Lippard

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Lucy R. Lippard (New York, 1937) is a writer, art critic, curator, and American activist, known for her pioneering role in conceptual art and artistic feminism. Throughout her career, she has published more than 20 books on contemporary art, activism, feminism, and cultural politics. She has received numerous awards and recognitions, including the Guggenheim Fellowship (1968), the Frank Jewett Mather Award from the College Art Association (1975), the Distinguished Feminist Award (2012), and the Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award for Writing on Art (2015).

Among her most notable works are Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972 (1973), From the Center: Feminist Essays on Women's Art (1976), Eva Hesse (1976), Overlay: Contemporary Art and the Art of Prehistory (1983), Mixed Blessings: New Art in a Multicultural America (1990), and The Lure of the Local: Senses of Place in a Multicentered Society (1997). Her work falls within the genre of critical essay and art theory, and has been fundamental in understanding the intersections between art, politics, and society.

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