Lee Lozano: Not Working

Lee Lozano (1930–1999) is an overlooked artist from the 1960s whose work has recently returned to the limelight. This book is the first in-depth study of her ten-year career, charting her production in New York from her raucous drawings and paintings to the final exhibition of her abstract "Wave Paintings" at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1970. Lozano is now best known for Dropout Piece (1970), a conceptual artwork and dramatic gesture with which she quit the art world. This book tackles head-on the challenges that Lozano poses to 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.

Format: Hardback
Length: 192 pages
Publication date: 09 March 2018
Publisher: Yale University Press

Lee Lozano, an artist from the 1960s whose work has recently gained attention, is the subject of an enlightening study. This comprehensive examination of Lee Lozano's ten-year career, 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, ensures this important artist a prominent place in histories of post-war art.

At the time, Lozano was highly regarded, but she is now perhaps best known for Dropout Piece (1970), a conceptual artwork and dramatic gesture with which she quit the art world. Shortly thereafter, she announced she would have no further contact with other women. Her "dropout" and "boycott of women" lasted until her death, by which time she was all but forgotten. This book tackles head-on the challenges that Lozano poses to art history, particularly 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 seeks to think about complex figures like Lozano whose radical, politically ambiguous gestures challenge our assumptions about feminism and the "right way" to live and work.

Weight: 764g
Dimension: 181 x 256 x 21 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780300223279