LIPPARD, Lucy R.

Lippard was for many years the first major independent female art critic in America (as distinct from newspaper-based female art reviewer), and her early books, beginning with Changing (1968) and continuing perhaps through Overlay (1983), rank among the best at understanding new art. Her brilliant monograph on Ad Reinhardt (published in 1981, but written a decade before) makes all subsequent writing on this avant-garde American seem amateur. I use the past tense, even though Lippard...