“… As the art world’s most outspoken feminist/socialist critic, Lucy R. Lippard has always gone against the tide, insisting emphatically on art with a message. She is deeply troubled by the fact that we live in an era that produces increasing numbers of artists who are without any sense of purpose beyond their own professional aims and that, as a culture, we seem to have lost any notion of what our art is for. If this situation raises a question most art critics try to avoid, it is one that gives special resonance to Miss Lippard’s writing, since what is at stake for her is nothing less than the reestablishing of connections among art, nature and society. …”
NY Times: ART SHOULD MEAN AS WELL AS BE
W – Lucy R. Lippard
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