The Pink Glass Swan: Selected Essays on Feminist Art

In the 1970s, Lucy R. Lippard, author of the highly original and popular Mixed Blessings, merged her art-world concerns with those of the then-fledgling women’s movement. In a career that spans sixteen books and scores of articles, catalogs, and essays on art, political activism, feminism, and multiculturalism, her engaging and provocative writings have heralded a new way of thinking about art and its role in the feminist movement.

This new collection of previously published essays covers more than two decades of Lippard’s thinking on the ever-evolving definitions of feminist art, the convergence of high and low art, political and activist art, and the contributions of feminist theory to the politics of identity that infuses the production and exhibition of much of today’s fine and popular art.

With a new introduction from the author, The Pink Glass Swan brings together selections from two of Lippard’s leading works, From the Center: Feminist Essays on Art and Get the Message?: A Decade of Art for Social Change, and numerous other articles written for newspapers, magazines, and art catalogs across the country.

• A Decade of Negative Thinking: Essays on Art, Politics, and Daily Life
• Feminism Art Theory: An Anthology 1968 - 2014, 2nd Edition
• Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art
• Unspeakable Acts: Women, Art, and Sexual Violence in the 1970s
• From the Center
• Get the Message?: A Decade of Art for Social Change
• Undermining: A Wild Ride Through Land Use, Politics, and Art in the Changing West
• Curatorial Activism: Towards an Ethics of Curating
• Overlay: Contemporary Art and the Art of Prehistory
• Mixed Blessings: New Art in a Multicultural America