Lucy Lippard: Becoming feminist.
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Title
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Lucy Lippard: Becoming feminist.
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Identifier
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AAI9720103
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identifier
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9720103
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Creator
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Kaufman, John A.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Marlene Park
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Date
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1997
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Art History | Women's Studies | Fine Arts
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Abstract
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This study is an intellectual history that explores the transition from formalism to feminism of an influential American art critic, Lucy Lippard. Its scope ranges from the early 1960s to 1975, a period during which Lippard gained recognition as the foremost feminist art critic in the United States. The focus is on the inter-relationship between the New York art world, the ideas of Lippard, and the conceptual framework developed by the Women's Liberation Movement in the United States. The general thesis is that American feminism has done much to alter the conditions and reception of art in the United States and that this feminism developed with and influenced the critiques of postmodernism and multiculturalism. This study also attempts to refute the assumption that American feminism and the art it inspired were essentialist. Topics include the influence of Simone de Beauvoir, how gender influenced art critics' use of phenomenology, the relationship between Conceptual Art and photography, Lippard's models for art and identity, the feminist critique of psychoanalysis, and the feminist dialogue on lesbianism. The following writers and artists are discussed: Ti-Grace Atkinson, Simone de Beauvoir, the Redstockings Collective, Judy Chicago, Priscilla Colt, Mary Daly, Shulamith Firestone, Sigmund Freud, Betty Friedan, Thalia Gouma-Peterson and Patricia Mathews, Carol Hanisch, Eva Hesse, Jill Johnston, Thomas Kuhn, R. D. Laing, Lucy Lippard, Kate Millet, Juliet Mitchell, Wilhelm Reich, Ad Reinhardt, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Kathie Sarachild, Robert Smithson, and G. R. Swenson.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
