The Pink Glass Swan

<div><p>In the 1970s Lucy R. Lippard author of the highly original and popular<I> Mixed Blessings</I> 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.</p><p>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.</p><p>With a new introduction from the author <I>The Pink Glass Swan </I>brings together selections from two of Lippard's leading works <I>From the Center: Feminist Essays on Art</I> and <I>Get the Message?: A Decade of Art for Social Change</I> and numerous other articles written for newspapers magazines and art catalogs across the country.</p><BR></div>