“Looking at and 'appreciating' art has been understood as an instrument (or at best a result) of upward mobility, in which owning art is the ultimate step. making art is at the bottom of the scale. This is the only… — Lucy R. Lippard Copy Share
“Looking at and 'appreciating' art has been understood as an instrument (or at best a result) of upward mobility, in which owning art is the ultimate step. making art is at the bottom of the scale. This is the only legitimate reason to see artists as so many artists see themselves - as 'workers'. At the same time, artists/makers tend… — Lucy R. Lippard Copy Share
Travel is the only context in which some people ever look around. If we spent half the energy looking at our own neighborhoods, we'd… — Lucy R. Lippard Copy Share Image
Photographers find themselves directly in competition with mass media's misrepresentations of women. So the photographic terrain is particularly contested from a political point of… — Lucy R. Lippard Copy Share Image
“The postmodern notion of "appropriation" is not a good fit. In New Mexico, the "indigenous" is a syncretic fusion of Native American and Hispano American. Just as Pueblo people who are Catholics embrace their traditional religions, Nuevo Mexicanos who wear Metallica T-shirts also attend mass and clean the ditches. The fact that both good and bad aspects of the larger… — Lucy R. Lippard Copy Share
Despite having been awarded the dubious honor of arthood, all photography is still perceived as having one foot in the real world, a toe… — Lucy R. Lippard Copy Share Image
There is indeed something omnivorous about the act of photography. It offers a way of responding to everything about everything. — Lucy R. Lippard Copy Share Image
Given the lack of public skills in reading photographs, given that photographic content is sometimes buried in beauty, contemporary landscape photographers are often condemned… — Lucy R. Lippard Copy Share Image
I intensely dislike the word 'critic,' because it puts you in an antagonistic position to artists. I've learned everything that I know about art… — Lucy R. Lippard Copy Share Image
I must admit to a personal lack of sympathy with women who have themselves photographed in black stockings, garter belts and boots, with bare… — Lucy R. Lippard Copy Share Image
A piece of paper or a photograph is as much an object, or as 'material' as a ton of lead. — Lucy R. Lippard Copy Share Image
Conceptual art, for me, means work in which the idea is paramount and the material form is secondary, lightweight, ephemeral, cheap, unpretentious and/or ‘dematerialized’ — Lucy R. Lippard Copy Share Image
