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Lee Lozano : not working / Jo Applin.
Fine Arts Library N6537.L679 L44 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Applin, Jo, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lozano, Lee, 1930-1999--Criticism and interpretation.
- Lozano, Lee.
- Lozano, Lee, 1930-1999.
- Women artists--United States.
- Women artists.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- United States.
- Feminism and art--United States.
- Feminism and art.
- Conceptual art--United States.
- Conceptual art.
- Physical Description:
- 191 pages ; 26 cm
- Other Title:
- Not working
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- This is the first in-depth study of the idiosyncratic ten-year career of Lee Lozano (1930-1999), assuring this important artist a key place in histories of post-war art. The book charts the entirety of Lozano's production in 1960s New York, from her raucous drawings and paintings depicting broken tools, genitalia, and other body parts to the final exhibition of her spectacular series of abstract "Wave Paintings" at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1970. Highly regarded at the time, Lozano is now perhaps best known for Dropout Piece (1970), a conceptual artwork and dramatic gesture with which she quit the art world. Shortly afterwards she announced she would have no further contact with other women. Her "dropout" and "boycott of women" lasted until her death in 1999, by which time she was all but forgotten. This book tackles head-on the challenges that Lozano poses to art history-and especially to feminist art history-attending to her failures as well as her successes, and arguing that through dead ends and impasses she struggled to forge an alternative mode of living. 'Lee Lozano: Not Working' looks for the means to think about complex figures like Lozano whose radical, politically ambiguous gestures test our assumptions about feminism and the "right way" to live and work.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780300223279
- 0300223277
- OCLC:
- 1020311566
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