. Actually nothing new; the history of modern art demon-

strates a constant longing for the primitive, the simple,-

the clear, the “poor,” the noble naif, etc.

Michele Russell, “Woman and Third World,” New Amer-
ican Movement (June, 1973).

. Opinions of Working People Concerning the Arts, ed.
Don Celender (New York, 1975).

_Bernard Kirchenbaum, in correspondence. Celender,
op. cit., offers proof of this need and of the huge (and
amazing) interest in art expressed by the working class,
though it should be said that much of what is called art
would not be agreed upon by the taste dictators.

6. This despite their publication of and apparent endorse-

ment of Carolee Schneemann’s “The Pronoun Tyranny”
in The Fox, 3 (1976).

7 Sheila Rowbotham, Women: Resistance and Revolution,
(London, 1972).

Lucy R. Lippard is a feminist art critic, writes fiction too,
and has been active politically. She is co-founder of several
women artists’ groups and has published 10 books on con-
temporary art, the two most recent ones being From the
Center: Feminist Essays on Women’s Art (E.P. Dutton) and
Eva Hesse (N.Y.U. Press).



Su Friedrich. Chicago Mannequin. 1975.

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