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Materializing 'Six Years': Lucy R Lippard and the emergence of Conceptual Art
Brooklyn Museum of Art New York
14 September to 3 February
'Materializing "Six Years": Lucy R Lippard and the Emergence of Conceptual Arf is an exhibition that examines this US critic's defining role in the movement. Held in the Elizabeth A Sadder Center for Feminist Art, the emphasis here is on Lippard rather than the largely male population of artists that her seminal book documents. Lippard's Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from ig66-igj2 (its full title also includes a cross-reference book of information on some esthetic boundaries: consisting of a bibliography into which are inserted a fragmented text, art works, documents, interviews, and symposia, arranged chronohgkally and focused on so<alied conceptual or information or idea art with mentions of such vaguely designated areas as minimal, anüform, systems, earth, or process art, occurring now in the Americas, Europe, England, Australia, and Asia [with occasional political overtones]) is a landmark publication of contemporary art history. Originally published in 1973, it includes a preface and a chronological compendium of artworks that are representative of the conceptual turn in art practice during the said sixyears. Artists as diverse as Jo Baer, Gilbert & George, Dan Graham, Eva Hesse, Douglas Huebler, Joseph Kosuth, Sol LeWitt, Ed Ruscha, Robert Smithson and Barry Le Va are represented within. Lippard was in the milieu of the artists that she wrote about: she was married to Robert Ryman and living in Manhattan's S0H0 district at the time of researching the book. She would...