Tue, Sep 12
|Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse
Lucy Lippard, Stuff Instead of a Memoir
Colorfully written and illustrated memoir, Stuff: Instead of a Memoir is a short, abundantly illustrated autobiography of the American art writer, activist, and sometime curator Lucy R. Lippard.
Date, Time & Location
Sep 12, 2023, 6:00 PM MDT
Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse, 202 Galisteo St, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA
About the Event
This will be an in-store event and live streamed to Zoom, register here for Zoom.
Copies of Stuff can be purchased online or by calling the store to order (505) 988-4226. Signed copies will be available after the event.
Describing tchotchkes, photographs, and art in her unpretentious New Mexico home, the author informally narrates key events and relationships in her 86-year-long, highly creative life, starting with her family roots and her childhood in New York, Louisiana, Virginia, and Maine. Through anecdotal and often humorous memories, we follow the author through her youth, adulthood, relationships, and her thirty-five years in New York City, where she organized dozens of exhibitions, authored hundreds of articles, and co-founded Heresies: A Feminist Journal of Art and Politics, the artist's-book center Printed Matter, and activist artists group PAD/D Political Art Documentation/Distribution.) Lippard touches on the roles she played in Conceptual Art and the Feminist Art movement…