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Sweeping Exchanges: The Contribution of Feminism to the Art
of the 1970s
Author(s): Lucy R. Lippard
Source: Art Journal, Vol. 40, No. 1/2, Modernism, Revisionism,
Plurism, and Post-Modernism
(Autumn - Winter, 1980), pp. 362-365
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Sweeping Exchanges:
The Contribution of Feminism
to the Art of the 1970s
Lucy R. Lippard
Lucy R. Lippard is an art critic
and a member of the collective that
publishes Heresies, afeminist
periodical on politics and the arts.
By now most people-not just feminist
people-will acknowledge that feminism
has made a contribution to the avant-
garde and/or modernist arts of the 1970s.1
What exactly that contribution is and how
important it has been is not so easily
established. This is a difficult subject for
a feminist to tackle because it seems
unavoidably entangled in the art world's
linear I-did-it-firstism, which radical fem-
inists have rejected (not to mention our
own, necessarily biased inside view). If
one says-and one can-that around
1970 women artists introduced an ele-
ment of real emotion and autobiographi-
cal content to performance, body art,
video, and artists' books; or that they
have brought over into high art the use of
"low" traditional art forms such as em-
broidery, sewing, and china painting; or
that they have changed the face of central
imagery and pattern painting, of layering,
fragmentation, and collage-someone
will inevitably and perhaps justifiably
holler the names of various male artists.
But these are simply surface phenomena.
Feminism's major contribution has been
too complex, subversive, and fundamen-
tally political to lend itself to such inter-
necine, hand-to-hand stylistic combat. I
am, therefore, not going to mention names,
but shall try instead to make my claims
sweeping enough to clear the decks.
Feminism's greatest contribution to the
future of art has probably been precisely
its lack of contribution to modernism.
Feminist methods and theories have in-
stead offered a socially concerned alter-
native to the increasingly mechanical
"evolution" of art about art. The 1970s
might not have been "pluralist" at all if
women artists had not emerged during
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that decade to introduce the multicolored
threads of female experience into the
male fabric of modern art. Or, to collage
my metaphors-the feminist insistence
that the personal (and thereby art itself)
is political has, like a serious flood, inter-
rupted the mainstream's flow, sending it
off into hundreds of tributaries.
It is useless to try to pin down a specific
formal contribution made by feminism
because feminist and/or women's art is
neither a style nor a movement, much as
this may distress those who would like to
see it safely ensconced in the categories
and chronology of the past. It consists of
many styles and individual expressions
and for the most part succeeds in by-
passing the star system. At its most pro-
vocative and constructive, feminism ques-
tions all the precepts of art as we know it.
(It is no accident that "revisionist" art
history also emerged around 1970, with
feminists sharing its front line.) In this
sense, then, focusing on feminism's con-
tribution to 1970s art is a red herring.
The goal of feminism is to change the
character of art. "What has prevented
women from being really great artists is
the fact that we have been unable to
transform our circumstances into our
subject matter.... to use them to reveal
the whole nature of the human condition."2
Thus, if our only contribution is to be the
incorporation on a broader scale of wom-
en's traditions of crafts, autobiography,
narrative, overall collage, or any other
technical or stylistic innovation-then we
shall have failed.
Feminism is an ideology, a value sys-
tem, a revolutionary strategy, a way of
life.3 (And for me it is inseparable from
socialism, although neither all Marxists
nor all feminists agree on this.) There-
fore, feminist art is, of necessity, already
a hybrid. It is far from fully realized, but
we envision for it the same intensity that
characterizes the women's movement at
its best. Here, for example, are some
descriptions of feminist art: "Feminist art
raises consciousness, invites dialogue,
and transforms culture."4 "If one is a
feminist, then one must be a feminist
artist-that is, one must make art that
reflects a political consciousness of what
it means to be a woman in partriarchal
culture. The visual form this conscious-
ness takes varies from artist to artist.
Thus art and feminism are not totally
separate, nor are they the same thing."5
"The problem is not with people's taste
(often called 'kitsch' by superior minds)
but with defining art as one thing only. Art
is that which functions as aesthetic experi-
ence for you. If a certain art works that
way for enough people, there is consen-
sus; that becomes art.... That which we
feel is worth devoting one's life to and
whose value cannot be proven, that is
art."6 Feminist art "is a political position,
a set of ideas about the future of the
world, which includes information about
the history of women and our struggles
and recognition of women as a class. It is
also developing new forms and a new
sense of audience."7
The conventional art world response
to these statements will be what new
forms? And to hell with the rest of it.
Descriptions like the above do not sound
like definitions of art precisely because
they are not, and because they exist in an
atmosphere of outreach virtually aban-
doned by modernism. For years now, we
have been told that male modernist art is
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superior because it is "self-critical." But
from such a view self-criticism is in fact a
narrow, highly mystified, and often ego-
tistical monologue. The element of dia-
logue can be entirely lacking (though
ironically it is feminist art that is accused
of narcissism). Self-criticism that does
not take place within or pass on out to its
audience simply reinforces our culture's
view of art as an absolutely isolated activity.
Artists (like women) stay home (in self
and studio) and pay for this "freedom" by
having their products manipulated and
undervalued by those who control the out-
side world.
A basic and painful conflict is set up
when an artist wants to make art and at
the same time wants to participate more
broadly in the culture, even wants to
integrate aesthetic and social activities.
Artists who work with groups, as do so
many feminists, always seem to be looking
wistfully over their shoulders at the stu-
dio. "I've got to get back to my own
work" is a familiar refrain, because, as it
stands now, art and life always seem to be
in competition. And this situation produces
an unusually schizophrenic artist. One of
the feminist goals is to reintegrate the
aesthetic self and the social self and to
make it possible for both to function with-
out guilt or frustration. In the process, we
have begun to see art as something subtly
but significantly different from what it is in
the dominant culture.
This is not said in a self-congratulatory
tone. It remains to be seen whether differ-
ent is indeed better. Success and failure
in such unmapped enterprises are often
blurred. Various feminists have already
fallen into various traps along the way,
among them: the adoption of certain
cliches in images (fruit and shell, mirror
and mound), materials (fabrics and pa-
pers), approaches ("non-elitist"), and
emotions (non-transformative pain, rage,
and mother-love); a certain naivete (also
carrying with it a certain strength) that
comes from the wholesale rejection of all
other art, especially abstraction and paint-
ing; a dependence on "political correct-
ness" that can lead to exclusivity and
snobbism; and, at the other extreme, an
unthinking acceptance of literally anything
done by a woman. Beneath these pitfalls
is a need for language-visual and verbal
-that will express the ways our art and
ideas are developing without being sappy
and without denying the powers of the
individual within collective dialogue.
Nevertheless, feminist values have per-
meated the 1970s and are ready to flower
in the 1980s, if militarism and socioeco-
nomic backlash don't overwhelm us all.
Often accepted unconsciously, these val-
ues support the opening up and out of
eyes, mouths, minds, and doors-and
sometimes the smashing of windows. They
include collaboration, dialogue, a con-
stant questioning of aesthetic and social
assumptions, and a new respect for audi-
ence. Feminism's contribution to the evo-
lution of art reveals itself not in shapes
but in structures. Only new structures
bear the possibility of changing the vehicle
itself, the meaning of art in society.
New? I hesitate to use the word in this
context, since it too has been so distorted
in the name of modernism: new reality,
new realism, new abstraction, and simi-
larly, all the rigid posts: post-modernism,
post-Minimalism, and post-beyond-post-
ness. Feminism is new only in the sense that
it isn't post-anything. Its formal precepts
are not new at all. They are simply distri-
buted differently from those entrenched
since around 1950. Much or even most of
the best art by women has turned its back
on the "new," preferring to go deeper.
into visual forms that have been "done
before" (mostly by men). When I began
to write extensively about women's art, I
was accused by friends and enemies of
becoming a "retrograde" critic. And so
long as I remained attached to the condi-
tioning of my own art education, received
primarily at the Museum of Modern Art
and on 10th and 57th Streets, I too was
afraid of that stigma. However, the more
women's work I saw, the more my respect
grew for those artists who, having been
forcibly cut off from the mainstream, per-
severed in exploring their own social
realities, even-or especially-when such
exploration did not coincide with the cur-
rent fashions.
The more illuminating dialogues I had
within the women's movement, the clearer
it became to me that the express towards
the "true nature of art" had whisked us
past any number of fertile valleys, paths
to elsewhere, revelations, personal and
social confrontations that might forever
have been missed had it not been for
such stubbornly "retrograde" artists who
insisted on taking the local. During this
time I was constantly being told that some
woman's work was derived from some
far better known man's work. In fact,
such similarities were usually demonstra-
bly superficial, but the experience of
searching for the differences proved in-
valuable because it undermined and final-
ly invalidated that notion of "progress"
so dear to the heart of the art market.
In endlessly different ways, the best
women artists have resisted the treadmill
to progress by simply disregarding a his-
tory that was not theirs. There is a differ-
ence, though not always an obvious one,
between the real but superficial innova-
tions of a feminist or woman's art that has
dissolved into mainstream concerns and
the application of these same innovations
to another set of values, where they may
be seen as less "original." It was sug-
gested several years ago that feminist art
offered a new "vernacular" reality op-
posed to the "historical" reality that has
informed modern art to date.8 Given its
air of condescension, "vernacular" may
not be the right word (and certainly we
don't want to be "hidden from history"
again), but it is the right idea. The 1970s
have, I hope, seen the last of the "move-
ments" that have traipsed, like elephants
trunk-to-tail, through the last century.
The notion that art neatly progresses
has been under attack from all sides for
years now; its absurdity became increas-
ingly obvious with post-modernism in the
early 1960s. By 1975, a not-always-de-
lightful chaos of conceptual art, perform-
ance, photo-realism, "new images," and
what-have-you prevailed. The 1970s plu-
ralism, decried for different reasons by
both left and right, has at least produced
a kind of compost heap where artists can
sort out what is fertile and what is sterile.
Bag ladies picking around in this heap
find forms, colors, shapes, and materials
that have been discarded by the folks on
the hill. They take them home and recycle
them, thriftily finding new uses for worn-
out concepts, changing not only the but-
tons and the trim but the functions as well.
A literal example of this metaphor is the
Chilean arpillera, or patchwork picture.
Made by anonymous women and smuggled
out into the world as images of political
protest, social deprivation, crushed ideas
and hopes, the arpilleras are the only valid
indigenous Chilean art-now that the mu-
rals have been painted over, the poets and
singers murdered and imprisoned.
You will have noticed by now that
feminism (and by extension feminist art)
is hugely ambitious.9 A developed feminist
consciousness brings with it an altered
concept of reality and morality that is
crucial to the art being made and to the
lives lived with that art. We take for granted
that making art is not simply "expressing
oneself' but is a far broader and more
important task-expressing oneself as a
member of a larger unity, or comm/unity,
so that in speaking for oneself one is also
speaking for those who cannot speak. A
populist definition of quality in art might
be "that element that moves the viewer." A
man probably can't decide what that is for
a woman, nor a white for a person of
color, nor an educated for an uneducated
person, and so forth, which is where
"taste" comes in. This in turn may explain
why the "experts" have never been able
to agree on which artists have this elusive
"quality." Only when there are real chan-
nels of communication can artist and
audience both change and mutually ex-
change their notions of art.
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Feminists are asking themselves, as
certain artists and critics and historians
have asked themselves for generations,
"Is this particular painting, sculpture,
performance, text, photograph moving to
me? If so, why? If not, why not? In this
intuitive/analytical task, the social condi-
tioning we have undergone as women, as
nurturers of children, men, homes, and
customs, has its advantages. We are not
bolstered by the conviction that whatever
we do will be accepted by those in power.
This can be psychologically detrimental,
but it also carries with it an increased
sensitivity to the needs of others which
accounts to some extent for the roles that
the audience, and communication, play
in feminist art.
Similarly, because women's traditional
arts have always been considered utili-
tarian, feminists are more willing than
others to accept the notion that art can be
aesthetically and socially effective at the
same time. Not that it's easy. The parame-
ters for "good art" have been set; the
illusion of stretching those boundaries
that prevails in the avant-garde is more
exactly a restless thrashing around within
the walls. Overtly feminist artists are al-
ways being accused of being "bad artists"
simply by definition. That's not something
I'm interested in responding to here, but
it should be mentioned in the context of
changing the character of art. Given the
history of the avant-garde, what on earth
does "bad art" mean these days? But of
course if someone isn't there to say what
"good art" is-then art itself gets out of
institutional hand.
Perhaps the single aspect of feminist
art that makes it most foreign to the
mainstream notion of art is that it is
impossible to discuss it without referring
to the social structures that support and
often inspire it. These structures are
grounded in the interaction techniques
adapted (and feminized) from revolution-
ary socialist practice-techniques on which
the women's movement itself is based: con-
sciousness-raising, going around the cir-
cle with equal time for all speakers, and
criticism/self-criticism. From the result-
ing structures have evolved the models
feminism offers for art. These models, I
repeat, are not new ways of handling the
picture plane, or new ways of rearrang-
ing space, nor new ways of making fig-
ures, objects, or landscapes live; they are
inclusive structures or social collages.
The history of the male avant-garde has
been one of reverse (or perverse) response
to society, with the artist seen as the oppo-
sition or as out-of-touch idealist. The femi-
nist (and socialist) value system insists
upon cultural workers supporting and re-
sponding to their constituencies. The three
models of such interaction are: (1) group
364 ArtJournal
and/or public ritual; (2) public conscious-
ness-raising and interaction through visu-
al images, environments, and perform-
ances; and (3) cooperative/collaborative/
collective or anonymous artmaking. While
it is true that they can more easily be
applied to the mass-reproduced mediums
such as posters, video, and publications,
these models also appear as underlying
aesthetics in paintings, sculptures, draw-
ings, and prints. Of course, no single
artist incorporates all the models I am
idealizing here, and certainly individual
male artists have contributed to these
notions. But since male consciousness
(or lack thereoO dominates the art world,
and since with some exceptions male
artists are slow to accept or to acknowl-
edge the influence of women, these mod-
els are being passed into the mainstream
slowly and subtly and often under mascu-
line guise-one of the factors that makes
the pinning down of feminism's contribu-
tion so difficult. Yet all these structures
are in the most fundamental sense collec-
tive, like feminism itself. And these three
models are all characterized by an ele-
ment of outreach, a need for connections
beyond process or product, an element
of inclusiveness which also takes the
form of responsiveness and responsibility
for one's own ideas and images-the
outward and inward facets of the same
impulse.
The word ritual has been used in con-
nection with art frequently and loosely in
the last decade, but it has raised the
important issue of the relationship of
belief to the forms that convey it. The
popularity of the notion of ritual indicates
a nostalgia for times when art had daily
significance. However, good ritual art is
not a matter of wishful fantasy, of skim-
ming a few alien cultures for an exotic set
of images. Useful as they may be as talis-
mans for self-development, these images
are only containers. They become ritual
in the true sense only when they are filled
by a communal impulse that connects the
past (the last time we performed this act)
and the present (the ritual we are per-
forming now) and the future (will we
ever perform it again?). When a ritual
doesn't work, it becomes a self-conscious
act, an exclusive object involving only the
performer. When it does work, it leaves
the viewer with a need to do or to partici-
pate in this act, or in something similar,
again. (Here ritual art becomes propa-
ganda in the good sense-that of spread-
ing the word.) Only in repetition does an
isolated act become ritualized, and this is
where community comes in. The feminist
development of ritual art has been in
response to real personal needs and also
to a communal need for a new history
and a broader framework within which
to make art.
Public consciousness-raising and inter-
action through visual images, environ-
ments, and performances also insist on
an inclusive and expansive structure that
is inherent in these forms. This is in a
sense the logical expansion of a notion
that has popped up through the history of
the avant-garde-that of working "in the
gap between art and life." Aside from an
outreach branch of the "happening" aes-
thetic in the early 1960s, this notion has
remained firmly on art's side of the gap.
But by 1970, feminists, especially on the
West coast, were closer to the edge of that
gap than most artists; they were further
from the power centers, and, out of des-
peration, more inclined to make the leap.
Just as ritual art reaches out and gathers
up archaeological, anthropological, and
religious data, the more overtly political
art of public strategies reaches out to
psychology, sociology, and the life sci-
ences. Its makers ("planners" might be a
more accurate term) work in time as well
as in images, moving closer to film, books,
or mass media. Video and photography
are often used not so much to stimulate a
passive audience as to welcome an actively
participating audience, to help people dis-
cover who they are, where their power
lies, and how they can make their own
exchanges between art and life.
Such work can take place in schools,
streets, shopping malls, prisons, hospitals,
or neighborhoods. Among its main pre-
cepts is that it does not reject any subject,
audience, or context, and that it accepts
the changes these may make in the art. To
be more specific, a few examples: (1) A
group of women of mixed nationalities
living in Paris, who have done large docu-
mentary pieces including drawings, texts,
photographs, and videotapes about wom-
en in prison and about Turkish and Portu-
guese workers at home and in economi-
cally imposed exile. (2) An Israeli woman
trying to communicate to urban workers
on the Tel Aviv waterfront the plight and
beliefs of the Bedouin tribes through
"Desert People" costume rituals in urban
workplaces. (3) A New York woman who
made her "Maintenance Art" first in the
home, then in office buildings, and has
spent the last two years identifying with
the men in the city's Sanitation Depart-
ment (the "women" of the city govern-
ment), recognizing their maintenance
work as art by shaking hands with every
member of the department. (4) Two
women in Los Angeles who make public
pieces strategically designed to change
the image and media coverage of feminist
issues such as rape and violence against
women. (5) A mixed-gender group, led
by a San Francisco woman, that has built
a "life frame" which is simultaneously
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performance art, five acres of community
outreach, and an experimental agriculture
station, making connections between ani-
mals, plants, people, and art. (6) A group
of women photographers in East London
organizing child-care facilities and com-
paring pictures of real life with the mass
media images of women. (7) A man in a
small economically devastated New En-
gland milltown who uses photography as
a vehicle of continuing awareness to ac-
quaint the inhabitants with their environ-
ment, with each other, and with their
possibilities. (8) Another man who mixes
art and science and populism in a South
Bronx storefront and calls it a "cultural
concept."
All these examples overlap. So does
the final one. Much of the work mentioned
above is being executed by various com-
binations of artists or of artists and non-
artists, often anonymously or under the
rubric of a collective or network or proj-
ect. Some women work cooperatively--
helping an individual artist to realize her
vision on a monumental scale and in the
process both giving to her work and
getting input for their own work. Others
work collaboratively, perhaps according
to their own special skills, needs, and
concerns. And others work collectively in
a more or less consciously structured
manner aimed at equal participation,
skill- and power-sharing. Each of these
means helps to achieve an end result of
breaking down the isolation of the artist's
traditional work patterns. None precludes
individual work. (I find from my own
experience that the dialogue or critical/
self-critical method stimulates new kinds
of working methods and a new flexibility.
By integrating feedback into the process,
and not just as final response to the
product, it also changes the individual
work.)
The structures or patterns I've sketched
out above are laid out on a grid of dialogue
which is in turn related to the favorite
feminist metaphor: the web, or network,
or quilt as an image of connectiveness,
inclusiveness and integration. The "col-
lage aesthetic" named by the Surrealists,
is a kind of dialectic exposing by juxtapo-
sition the disguises of certain words and
images and forms and thus also express-
ing the cultural and social myths on which
they are based. The notion of connections
is also a metaphor for the breakdown of
race, class, and gender barriers, because
it moves out from its center in every
direction. Though men are its progenitors
calls herself Spider Woman and another
group calls itself Ariadne. As I was writing
this essay, I read an article about the
Native American ethos of total interrela-
tionship between all things and creatures
which says: "Thus, nothing existed in iso-
lation. The intricately interrelated threads
of the spider's web was referred to ...
the world.... This is a profound 'symbol'
when it is understood. The people obvi-
ously observed that the threads of the
web were drawn out from within the
spider's very being. They also recognized
that the threads in concentric circles were
sticky, whereas the threads leading to the
center were smooth!"10 The author re-
members his mother saying that "in the
Native American experience all things are
possible and therefore all things are ac-
ceptable" and he goes on to hope that
"our societal structures and attitudes be-
come bold and large enough to affirm
rather than to deny, to accept rather than
to reject."
I quote this not only because it ex-
presses very clearly a conviction that lies
at the heart of feminism (and should lie
at the heart of all art as well), but also
because it comes from another subjugated
culture to which some of us fleeing the
potential disasters of Western capitalism
are sentimentally attracted. However, the
socialist feminist model does not stop at
the point of escape or rejection as did the
counterculture of the 1960s. To change
the character of art is not to retreat from
either society or art. This is the signifi-
cance of the models I've outlined above.
They do not shrink from social reality no
matter how painful it is, nor do they
shrink from the role art must play as
fantasy, dream, and imagination. They con-
tribute most to the avant-garde by slowing
it down. They locate a network of minor
roads that simply covers more territory
than the so-called freeways. These roads
are not, however, dead ends. They simply
pass more people's houses. And are more
likely to be invited in. End
in art, collage seems to me to be a partic-
ularly female medium, not only because
it offers a way of knitting the fragments of
our lives together but also because it
potentially leaves nothing out.
It is no accident that one ritual artist
Notes
1 Even the New York Times critic, though
he fears it is "lowering the artistic
standards."
2 Judy Chicago, ArOforum, September 1974
(also reprinted in my From the Center,
New York, 1976).
3 Surrealism was also self-described along
these broad lines, and with Dada has
proved that it too was never a movement
or a style, since it has continued to
pervade all movements and styles ever
since.
4 Ruth Iskin, at a panel on feminist art
and social change accompanying the
opening of The Dinner Party, March
1979.
5 Harmony Hammond, "Horseblinders,"
Heresies, No. 9, 1980.
6 May Stevens, "Taking Art to the Revolu-
tion," Heresies, No. 9, 1980. Many of the
ideas in this article are due to discussions
with the collective that edited this issue and
with Hammond and Stevens in particular.
7 Suzanne Lacy, panel accompanying The
Dinner Party (see n. 4).
8 Jack Bumham in the New Art Examiner,
1978.
9 The distinction between ambition (doing
one's best and taking one's art and ideas
as far as possible without abandoning the
feminist support system) and competition
(walking all over everybody to accomplish
this) is a much discussed topic in the
women's movement.
10Jemake Highwater, quoting Joseph Epes
Brown, in an unpublished manuscript.
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Contentsp.362p.363p.364p.365Issue Table of ContentsArt
Journal, Vol. 40, No. 1/2, Modernism, Revisionism, Plurism,
and Post-Modernism (Autumn - Winter, 1980), pp. 339-
443Front Matter [pp.339-442]Invitation to Contributors from
the Art Journal Editorial Board [p.341]Modernism,
Revisionism, Pluralism, and Post-Modernism [pp.345-
347]Revisionism Revisited [pp.348-352]Some Architectural
Ideologies after the Fall [pp.353-361]Sweeping Exchanges: The
Contribution of Feminism to the Art of the 1970s [pp.362-
365]The State of the Art: 1980 [pp.366-368]Performance--Art
for All? [pp.369-376]Pluralism in Art and in Art Criticism
[pp.377-379]Museum NewsAspects of Aspects [pp.380-
386]Aspects of the Fifties [pp.387-389]The Great Bronze Age
of China [pp.390-395]Perspectives on Perspectives [pp.395-
397]Thomas Couture and the Presentation of History Painting
[pp.397-399]Realists Resurrected [pp.399-403]Kamehameha I
and the NEH [pp.403-407]Anniversaries and Inaugurals
[pp.407-408]Books in Reviewuntitled [pp.409-413]untitled
[pp.413-417]untitled [pp.417-421]untitled [pp.423-427]untitled
[pp.427-431]Books Received [pp.433-435]Dissertations Listing
[pp.435-441]Correction: Dissertations Listing [p.441]Letters to
the EditorTissot [pp.441-443]Atget [p.443]Back Matter

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  • 2. All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublisher?publisherCode=caa http://www.jstor.org/stable/776601?origin=JSTOR-pdf http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp Sweeping Exchanges: The Contribution of Feminism to the Art of the 1970s Lucy R. Lippard Lucy R. Lippard is an art critic and a member of the collective that publishes Heresies, afeminist periodical on politics and the arts. By now most people-not just feminist people-will acknowledge that feminism has made a contribution to the avant- garde and/or modernist arts of the 1970s.1 What exactly that contribution is and how important it has been is not so easily established. This is a difficult subject for a feminist to tackle because it seems unavoidably entangled in the art world's linear I-did-it-firstism, which radical fem- inists have rejected (not to mention our own, necessarily biased inside view). If one says-and one can-that around 1970 women artists introduced an ele- ment of real emotion and autobiographi- cal content to performance, body art,
  • 3. video, and artists' books; or that they have brought over into high art the use of "low" traditional art forms such as em- broidery, sewing, and china painting; or that they have changed the face of central imagery and pattern painting, of layering, fragmentation, and collage-someone will inevitably and perhaps justifiably holler the names of various male artists. But these are simply surface phenomena. Feminism's major contribution has been too complex, subversive, and fundamen- tally political to lend itself to such inter- necine, hand-to-hand stylistic combat. I am, therefore, not going to mention names, but shall try instead to make my claims sweeping enough to clear the decks. Feminism's greatest contribution to the future of art has probably been precisely its lack of contribution to modernism. Feminist methods and theories have in- stead offered a socially concerned alter- native to the increasingly mechanical "evolution" of art about art. The 1970s might not have been "pluralist" at all if women artists had not emerged during 362 ArtJournal that decade to introduce the multicolored threads of female experience into the male fabric of modern art. Or, to collage my metaphors-the feminist insistence that the personal (and thereby art itself) is political has, like a serious flood, inter-
  • 4. rupted the mainstream's flow, sending it off into hundreds of tributaries. It is useless to try to pin down a specific formal contribution made by feminism because feminist and/or women's art is neither a style nor a movement, much as this may distress those who would like to see it safely ensconced in the categories and chronology of the past. It consists of many styles and individual expressions and for the most part succeeds in by- passing the star system. At its most pro- vocative and constructive, feminism ques- tions all the precepts of art as we know it. (It is no accident that "revisionist" art history also emerged around 1970, with feminists sharing its front line.) In this sense, then, focusing on feminism's con- tribution to 1970s art is a red herring. The goal of feminism is to change the character of art. "What has prevented women from being really great artists is the fact that we have been unable to transform our circumstances into our subject matter.... to use them to reveal the whole nature of the human condition."2 Thus, if our only contribution is to be the incorporation on a broader scale of wom- en's traditions of crafts, autobiography, narrative, overall collage, or any other technical or stylistic innovation-then we shall have failed. Feminism is an ideology, a value sys- tem, a revolutionary strategy, a way of
  • 5. life.3 (And for me it is inseparable from socialism, although neither all Marxists nor all feminists agree on this.) There- fore, feminist art is, of necessity, already a hybrid. It is far from fully realized, but we envision for it the same intensity that characterizes the women's movement at its best. Here, for example, are some descriptions of feminist art: "Feminist art raises consciousness, invites dialogue, and transforms culture."4 "If one is a feminist, then one must be a feminist artist-that is, one must make art that reflects a political consciousness of what it means to be a woman in partriarchal culture. The visual form this conscious- ness takes varies from artist to artist. Thus art and feminism are not totally separate, nor are they the same thing."5 "The problem is not with people's taste (often called 'kitsch' by superior minds) but with defining art as one thing only. Art is that which functions as aesthetic experi- ence for you. If a certain art works that way for enough people, there is consen- sus; that becomes art.... That which we feel is worth devoting one's life to and whose value cannot be proven, that is art."6 Feminist art "is a political position, a set of ideas about the future of the world, which includes information about the history of women and our struggles and recognition of women as a class. It is also developing new forms and a new sense of audience."7
  • 6. The conventional art world response to these statements will be what new forms? And to hell with the rest of it. Descriptions like the above do not sound like definitions of art precisely because they are not, and because they exist in an atmosphere of outreach virtually aban- doned by modernism. For years now, we have been told that male modernist art is This content downloaded from 131.238.16.30 on Mon, 19 Aug 2013 00:12:31 AM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp superior because it is "self-critical." But from such a view self-criticism is in fact a narrow, highly mystified, and often ego- tistical monologue. The element of dia- logue can be entirely lacking (though ironically it is feminist art that is accused of narcissism). Self-criticism that does not take place within or pass on out to its audience simply reinforces our culture's view of art as an absolutely isolated activity. Artists (like women) stay home (in self and studio) and pay for this "freedom" by having their products manipulated and undervalued by those who control the out- side world. A basic and painful conflict is set up when an artist wants to make art and at
  • 7. the same time wants to participate more broadly in the culture, even wants to integrate aesthetic and social activities. Artists who work with groups, as do so many feminists, always seem to be looking wistfully over their shoulders at the stu- dio. "I've got to get back to my own work" is a familiar refrain, because, as it stands now, art and life always seem to be in competition. And this situation produces an unusually schizophrenic artist. One of the feminist goals is to reintegrate the aesthetic self and the social self and to make it possible for both to function with- out guilt or frustration. In the process, we have begun to see art as something subtly but significantly different from what it is in the dominant culture. This is not said in a self-congratulatory tone. It remains to be seen whether differ- ent is indeed better. Success and failure in such unmapped enterprises are often blurred. Various feminists have already fallen into various traps along the way, among them: the adoption of certain cliches in images (fruit and shell, mirror and mound), materials (fabrics and pa- pers), approaches ("non-elitist"), and emotions (non-transformative pain, rage, and mother-love); a certain naivete (also carrying with it a certain strength) that comes from the wholesale rejection of all other art, especially abstraction and paint- ing; a dependence on "political correct- ness" that can lead to exclusivity and
  • 8. snobbism; and, at the other extreme, an unthinking acceptance of literally anything done by a woman. Beneath these pitfalls is a need for language-visual and verbal -that will express the ways our art and ideas are developing without being sappy and without denying the powers of the individual within collective dialogue. Nevertheless, feminist values have per- meated the 1970s and are ready to flower in the 1980s, if militarism and socioeco- nomic backlash don't overwhelm us all. Often accepted unconsciously, these val- ues support the opening up and out of eyes, mouths, minds, and doors-and sometimes the smashing of windows. They include collaboration, dialogue, a con- stant questioning of aesthetic and social assumptions, and a new respect for audi- ence. Feminism's contribution to the evo- lution of art reveals itself not in shapes but in structures. Only new structures bear the possibility of changing the vehicle itself, the meaning of art in society. New? I hesitate to use the word in this context, since it too has been so distorted in the name of modernism: new reality, new realism, new abstraction, and simi- larly, all the rigid posts: post-modernism, post-Minimalism, and post-beyond-post- ness. Feminism is new only in the sense that it isn't post-anything. Its formal precepts are not new at all. They are simply distri-
  • 9. buted differently from those entrenched since around 1950. Much or even most of the best art by women has turned its back on the "new," preferring to go deeper. into visual forms that have been "done before" (mostly by men). When I began to write extensively about women's art, I was accused by friends and enemies of becoming a "retrograde" critic. And so long as I remained attached to the condi- tioning of my own art education, received primarily at the Museum of Modern Art and on 10th and 57th Streets, I too was afraid of that stigma. However, the more women's work I saw, the more my respect grew for those artists who, having been forcibly cut off from the mainstream, per- severed in exploring their own social realities, even-or especially-when such exploration did not coincide with the cur- rent fashions. The more illuminating dialogues I had within the women's movement, the clearer it became to me that the express towards the "true nature of art" had whisked us past any number of fertile valleys, paths to elsewhere, revelations, personal and social confrontations that might forever have been missed had it not been for such stubbornly "retrograde" artists who insisted on taking the local. During this time I was constantly being told that some woman's work was derived from some far better known man's work. In fact, such similarities were usually demonstra-
  • 10. bly superficial, but the experience of searching for the differences proved in- valuable because it undermined and final- ly invalidated that notion of "progress" so dear to the heart of the art market. In endlessly different ways, the best women artists have resisted the treadmill to progress by simply disregarding a his- tory that was not theirs. There is a differ- ence, though not always an obvious one, between the real but superficial innova- tions of a feminist or woman's art that has dissolved into mainstream concerns and the application of these same innovations to another set of values, where they may be seen as less "original." It was sug- gested several years ago that feminist art offered a new "vernacular" reality op- posed to the "historical" reality that has informed modern art to date.8 Given its air of condescension, "vernacular" may not be the right word (and certainly we don't want to be "hidden from history" again), but it is the right idea. The 1970s have, I hope, seen the last of the "move- ments" that have traipsed, like elephants trunk-to-tail, through the last century. The notion that art neatly progresses has been under attack from all sides for years now; its absurdity became increas- ingly obvious with post-modernism in the early 1960s. By 1975, a not-always-de- lightful chaos of conceptual art, perform-
  • 11. ance, photo-realism, "new images," and what-have-you prevailed. The 1970s plu- ralism, decried for different reasons by both left and right, has at least produced a kind of compost heap where artists can sort out what is fertile and what is sterile. Bag ladies picking around in this heap find forms, colors, shapes, and materials that have been discarded by the folks on the hill. They take them home and recycle them, thriftily finding new uses for worn- out concepts, changing not only the but- tons and the trim but the functions as well. A literal example of this metaphor is the Chilean arpillera, or patchwork picture. Made by anonymous women and smuggled out into the world as images of political protest, social deprivation, crushed ideas and hopes, the arpilleras are the only valid indigenous Chilean art-now that the mu- rals have been painted over, the poets and singers murdered and imprisoned. You will have noticed by now that feminism (and by extension feminist art) is hugely ambitious.9 A developed feminist consciousness brings with it an altered concept of reality and morality that is crucial to the art being made and to the lives lived with that art. We take for granted that making art is not simply "expressing oneself' but is a far broader and more important task-expressing oneself as a member of a larger unity, or comm/unity, so that in speaking for oneself one is also speaking for those who cannot speak. A
  • 12. populist definition of quality in art might be "that element that moves the viewer." A man probably can't decide what that is for a woman, nor a white for a person of color, nor an educated for an uneducated person, and so forth, which is where "taste" comes in. This in turn may explain why the "experts" have never been able to agree on which artists have this elusive "quality." Only when there are real chan- nels of communication can artist and audience both change and mutually ex- change their notions of art. Fall/Winter 1980 363 This content downloaded from 131.238.16.30 on Mon, 19 Aug 2013 00:12:31 AM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp Feminists are asking themselves, as certain artists and critics and historians have asked themselves for generations, "Is this particular painting, sculpture, performance, text, photograph moving to me? If so, why? If not, why not? In this intuitive/analytical task, the social condi- tioning we have undergone as women, as nurturers of children, men, homes, and customs, has its advantages. We are not bolstered by the conviction that whatever we do will be accepted by those in power. This can be psychologically detrimental,
  • 13. but it also carries with it an increased sensitivity to the needs of others which accounts to some extent for the roles that the audience, and communication, play in feminist art. Similarly, because women's traditional arts have always been considered utili- tarian, feminists are more willing than others to accept the notion that art can be aesthetically and socially effective at the same time. Not that it's easy. The parame- ters for "good art" have been set; the illusion of stretching those boundaries that prevails in the avant-garde is more exactly a restless thrashing around within the walls. Overtly feminist artists are al- ways being accused of being "bad artists" simply by definition. That's not something I'm interested in responding to here, but it should be mentioned in the context of changing the character of art. Given the history of the avant-garde, what on earth does "bad art" mean these days? But of course if someone isn't there to say what "good art" is-then art itself gets out of institutional hand. Perhaps the single aspect of feminist art that makes it most foreign to the mainstream notion of art is that it is impossible to discuss it without referring to the social structures that support and often inspire it. These structures are grounded in the interaction techniques adapted (and feminized) from revolution-
  • 14. ary socialist practice-techniques on which the women's movement itself is based: con- sciousness-raising, going around the cir- cle with equal time for all speakers, and criticism/self-criticism. From the result- ing structures have evolved the models feminism offers for art. These models, I repeat, are not new ways of handling the picture plane, or new ways of rearrang- ing space, nor new ways of making fig- ures, objects, or landscapes live; they are inclusive structures or social collages. The history of the male avant-garde has been one of reverse (or perverse) response to society, with the artist seen as the oppo- sition or as out-of-touch idealist. The femi- nist (and socialist) value system insists upon cultural workers supporting and re- sponding to their constituencies. The three models of such interaction are: (1) group 364 ArtJournal and/or public ritual; (2) public conscious- ness-raising and interaction through visu- al images, environments, and perform- ances; and (3) cooperative/collaborative/ collective or anonymous artmaking. While it is true that they can more easily be applied to the mass-reproduced mediums such as posters, video, and publications, these models also appear as underlying aesthetics in paintings, sculptures, draw- ings, and prints. Of course, no single artist incorporates all the models I am
  • 15. idealizing here, and certainly individual male artists have contributed to these notions. But since male consciousness (or lack thereoO dominates the art world, and since with some exceptions male artists are slow to accept or to acknowl- edge the influence of women, these mod- els are being passed into the mainstream slowly and subtly and often under mascu- line guise-one of the factors that makes the pinning down of feminism's contribu- tion so difficult. Yet all these structures are in the most fundamental sense collec- tive, like feminism itself. And these three models are all characterized by an ele- ment of outreach, a need for connections beyond process or product, an element of inclusiveness which also takes the form of responsiveness and responsibility for one's own ideas and images-the outward and inward facets of the same impulse. The word ritual has been used in con- nection with art frequently and loosely in the last decade, but it has raised the important issue of the relationship of belief to the forms that convey it. The popularity of the notion of ritual indicates a nostalgia for times when art had daily significance. However, good ritual art is not a matter of wishful fantasy, of skim- ming a few alien cultures for an exotic set of images. Useful as they may be as talis- mans for self-development, these images are only containers. They become ritual
  • 16. in the true sense only when they are filled by a communal impulse that connects the past (the last time we performed this act) and the present (the ritual we are per- forming now) and the future (will we ever perform it again?). When a ritual doesn't work, it becomes a self-conscious act, an exclusive object involving only the performer. When it does work, it leaves the viewer with a need to do or to partici- pate in this act, or in something similar, again. (Here ritual art becomes propa- ganda in the good sense-that of spread- ing the word.) Only in repetition does an isolated act become ritualized, and this is where community comes in. The feminist development of ritual art has been in response to real personal needs and also to a communal need for a new history and a broader framework within which to make art. Public consciousness-raising and inter- action through visual images, environ- ments, and performances also insist on an inclusive and expansive structure that is inherent in these forms. This is in a sense the logical expansion of a notion that has popped up through the history of the avant-garde-that of working "in the gap between art and life." Aside from an outreach branch of the "happening" aes- thetic in the early 1960s, this notion has remained firmly on art's side of the gap. But by 1970, feminists, especially on the
  • 17. West coast, were closer to the edge of that gap than most artists; they were further from the power centers, and, out of des- peration, more inclined to make the leap. Just as ritual art reaches out and gathers up archaeological, anthropological, and religious data, the more overtly political art of public strategies reaches out to psychology, sociology, and the life sci- ences. Its makers ("planners" might be a more accurate term) work in time as well as in images, moving closer to film, books, or mass media. Video and photography are often used not so much to stimulate a passive audience as to welcome an actively participating audience, to help people dis- cover who they are, where their power lies, and how they can make their own exchanges between art and life. Such work can take place in schools, streets, shopping malls, prisons, hospitals, or neighborhoods. Among its main pre- cepts is that it does not reject any subject, audience, or context, and that it accepts the changes these may make in the art. To be more specific, a few examples: (1) A group of women of mixed nationalities living in Paris, who have done large docu- mentary pieces including drawings, texts, photographs, and videotapes about wom- en in prison and about Turkish and Portu- guese workers at home and in economi- cally imposed exile. (2) An Israeli woman trying to communicate to urban workers on the Tel Aviv waterfront the plight and
  • 18. beliefs of the Bedouin tribes through "Desert People" costume rituals in urban workplaces. (3) A New York woman who made her "Maintenance Art" first in the home, then in office buildings, and has spent the last two years identifying with the men in the city's Sanitation Depart- ment (the "women" of the city govern- ment), recognizing their maintenance work as art by shaking hands with every member of the department. (4) Two women in Los Angeles who make public pieces strategically designed to change the image and media coverage of feminist issues such as rape and violence against women. (5) A mixed-gender group, led by a San Francisco woman, that has built a "life frame" which is simultaneously This content downloaded from 131.238.16.30 on Mon, 19 Aug 2013 00:12:31 AM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp performance art, five acres of community outreach, and an experimental agriculture station, making connections between ani- mals, plants, people, and art. (6) A group of women photographers in East London organizing child-care facilities and com- paring pictures of real life with the mass media images of women. (7) A man in a small economically devastated New En- gland milltown who uses photography as
  • 19. a vehicle of continuing awareness to ac- quaint the inhabitants with their environ- ment, with each other, and with their possibilities. (8) Another man who mixes art and science and populism in a South Bronx storefront and calls it a "cultural concept." All these examples overlap. So does the final one. Much of the work mentioned above is being executed by various com- binations of artists or of artists and non- artists, often anonymously or under the rubric of a collective or network or proj- ect. Some women work cooperatively-- helping an individual artist to realize her vision on a monumental scale and in the process both giving to her work and getting input for their own work. Others work collaboratively, perhaps according to their own special skills, needs, and concerns. And others work collectively in a more or less consciously structured manner aimed at equal participation, skill- and power-sharing. Each of these means helps to achieve an end result of breaking down the isolation of the artist's traditional work patterns. None precludes individual work. (I find from my own experience that the dialogue or critical/ self-critical method stimulates new kinds of working methods and a new flexibility. By integrating feedback into the process, and not just as final response to the product, it also changes the individual work.)
  • 20. The structures or patterns I've sketched out above are laid out on a grid of dialogue which is in turn related to the favorite feminist metaphor: the web, or network, or quilt as an image of connectiveness, inclusiveness and integration. The "col- lage aesthetic" named by the Surrealists, is a kind of dialectic exposing by juxtapo- sition the disguises of certain words and images and forms and thus also express- ing the cultural and social myths on which they are based. The notion of connections is also a metaphor for the breakdown of race, class, and gender barriers, because it moves out from its center in every direction. Though men are its progenitors calls herself Spider Woman and another group calls itself Ariadne. As I was writing this essay, I read an article about the Native American ethos of total interrela- tionship between all things and creatures which says: "Thus, nothing existed in iso- lation. The intricately interrelated threads of the spider's web was referred to ... the world.... This is a profound 'symbol' when it is understood. The people obvi- ously observed that the threads of the web were drawn out from within the spider's very being. They also recognized that the threads in concentric circles were sticky, whereas the threads leading to the center were smooth!"10 The author re- members his mother saying that "in the Native American experience all things are
  • 21. possible and therefore all things are ac- ceptable" and he goes on to hope that "our societal structures and attitudes be- come bold and large enough to affirm rather than to deny, to accept rather than to reject." I quote this not only because it ex- presses very clearly a conviction that lies at the heart of feminism (and should lie at the heart of all art as well), but also because it comes from another subjugated culture to which some of us fleeing the potential disasters of Western capitalism are sentimentally attracted. However, the socialist feminist model does not stop at the point of escape or rejection as did the counterculture of the 1960s. To change the character of art is not to retreat from either society or art. This is the signifi- cance of the models I've outlined above. They do not shrink from social reality no matter how painful it is, nor do they shrink from the role art must play as fantasy, dream, and imagination. They con- tribute most to the avant-garde by slowing it down. They locate a network of minor roads that simply covers more territory than the so-called freeways. These roads are not, however, dead ends. They simply pass more people's houses. And are more likely to be invited in. End in art, collage seems to me to be a partic- ularly female medium, not only because it offers a way of knitting the fragments of
  • 22. our lives together but also because it potentially leaves nothing out. It is no accident that one ritual artist Notes 1 Even the New York Times critic, though he fears it is "lowering the artistic standards." 2 Judy Chicago, ArOforum, September 1974 (also reprinted in my From the Center, New York, 1976). 3 Surrealism was also self-described along these broad lines, and with Dada has proved that it too was never a movement or a style, since it has continued to pervade all movements and styles ever since. 4 Ruth Iskin, at a panel on feminist art and social change accompanying the opening of The Dinner Party, March 1979. 5 Harmony Hammond, "Horseblinders," Heresies, No. 9, 1980. 6 May Stevens, "Taking Art to the Revolu- tion," Heresies, No. 9, 1980. Many of the ideas in this article are due to discussions with the collective that edited this issue and with Hammond and Stevens in particular.
  • 23. 7 Suzanne Lacy, panel accompanying The Dinner Party (see n. 4). 8 Jack Bumham in the New Art Examiner, 1978. 9 The distinction between ambition (doing one's best and taking one's art and ideas as far as possible without abandoning the feminist support system) and competition (walking all over everybody to accomplish this) is a much discussed topic in the women's movement. 10Jemake Highwater, quoting Joseph Epes Brown, in an unpublished manuscript. Fall/Winter 1980 365 This content downloaded from 131.238.16.30 on Mon, 19 Aug 2013 00:12:31 AM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jspArticle Contentsp.362p.363p.364p.365Issue Table of ContentsArt Journal, Vol. 40, No. 1/2, Modernism, Revisionism, Plurism, and Post-Modernism (Autumn - Winter, 1980), pp. 339- 443Front Matter [pp.339-442]Invitation to Contributors from the Art Journal Editorial Board [p.341]Modernism, Revisionism, Pluralism, and Post-Modernism [pp.345- 347]Revisionism Revisited [pp.348-352]Some Architectural Ideologies after the Fall [pp.353-361]Sweeping Exchanges: The Contribution of Feminism to the Art of the 1970s [pp.362- 365]The State of the Art: 1980 [pp.366-368]Performance--Art for All? [pp.369-376]Pluralism in Art and in Art Criticism [pp.377-379]Museum NewsAspects of Aspects [pp.380-
  • 24. 386]Aspects of the Fifties [pp.387-389]The Great Bronze Age of China [pp.390-395]Perspectives on Perspectives [pp.395- 397]Thomas Couture and the Presentation of History Painting [pp.397-399]Realists Resurrected [pp.399-403]Kamehameha I and the NEH [pp.403-407]Anniversaries and Inaugurals [pp.407-408]Books in Reviewuntitled [pp.409-413]untitled [pp.413-417]untitled [pp.417-421]untitled [pp.423-427]untitled [pp.427-431]Books Received [pp.433-435]Dissertations Listing [pp.435-441]Correction: Dissertations Listing [p.441]Letters to the EditorTissot [pp.441-443]Atget [p.443]Back Matter