Activist Quote by Lucy R. Lippard

“Looking at and 'appreciating' art has been understood as an instrument (or at best a result) of upward mobility, in which owning art is…

— Lucy R. Lippard

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

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

“The postmodern notion of "appropriation" is not a good fit. In New Mexico, the "indigenous" is a syncretic fusion of Native American and Hispano…

— Lucy R. Lippard

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

There is indeed something omnivorous about the act of photography. It offers a way of responding to everything about everything.

— Lucy R. Lippard

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

The camera was another weapon in the wars of domination.

— Lucy R. Lippard

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

A piece of paper or a photograph is as much an object, or as 'material' as a ton of lead.

— Lucy R. Lippard

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

Why are we still afraid of being other than men? Women are still in hiding.

— Lucy R. Lippard