Main entry:

Lehrer-Graiwer, Sarah, author.

Title & Author:

Lee Lozano : Dropout Piece / Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer.

Publication:

London : Afterall Books, 2014.

Description:

1 online resource (112 pages) : chiefly color illustrations, facsimiles

Series:

One work series

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Drop in to Dropout -- What Makes a Piece -- Life Before 'Life-Art' -- Making Waves -- Becoming Dropout -- Simultaneity/Multiply by t -- Seek the Extremes -- Dictator to Oneself -- Total Revolution -- Applied Quantum Mechanics -- Private, Man -- Final Send-off -- Post-Dropout -- Lone Star -- Last Ash of an Idea -- Post-Dropout Postscript.

Summary:

An examination of Lee Lozano's greatest experiment in art and endurance'a major work of art that might not exist at all. The artist Lee Lozano (1930'1999) began her career as a painter; her work rapidly evolved from figuration to abstraction. In the late 1960s, she created a major series of eleven monochromatic Wave paintings, her last in the medium. Despite her achievements as a painter, Lozano is best known for two acts of refusal, both of which she undertook as artworks: Untitled (General Strike Piece), begun in 1969, in which she cut herself off from the commercial art world for a time; and the so-called Boycott Piece, which began in 1971 as a month-long experiment intended to improve communication but became a permanent hiatus from speaking to or directly interacting with women. In this book, Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer examines Lozano's Dropout Piece, the culmination of her practice, her greatest experiment in art and endurance, encompassing all her withdrawals, and ending only with her burial in an unmarked grave. And yet, although Dropout Piece is among Lozano's most important works, it might not exist at all. There is no conventional artwork to be exhibited, no performance event to be documented. Lehrer-Graiwer views Dropout Piece as leveraging the artist's entire practice and embodying her creative intelligence, her radicality, and her intensity. Combining art history, analytical inquiry, and journalistic investigation, Lehrer-Graiwer examines not only Lozano's act of dropping out but also the evolution over time of Dropout Piece in the context of the artist's practice in New York and her subsequent life in Dallas.

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ISBN:

9781846381362 (electronic bk.)
1846381363 (electronic bk.)
9781846381379 (electronic bk.)
1846381371 (electronic bk.)
1846381320
9781846381324
1846381312
9781846381317

Subject:

Lozano, Lee, 1930-1999 Criticism and interpretation.
Lozano, Lee, 1930-1999
Art, American 20th century.
Feminism in art.
Art américain 20e siècle.
Féminisme dans l'art.
ART History Contemporary (1945- )
Art, American

Form/genre:

Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Added entries:

One work.

Dropout Piece