{"product_id":"9781846381324","title":"Lee Lozano: Dropout Piece","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 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 \u003ci\u003eWave\u003c\/i\u003e 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: \u003ci\u003eUntitled (General Strike Piece)\u003c\/i\u003e, begun in 1969, in which she cut herself off from the commercial art world for a time; and the so-called \u003ci\u003eBoycott Piece\u003c\/i\u003e,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 \u003ci\u003eDropout Piece\u003c\/i\u003e,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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd yet, although \u003ci\u003eDropout Piece \u003c\/i\u003eis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Lehrer-Graiwer views \u003ci\u003eDropout Piece \u003c\/i\u003eas 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 \u003ci\u003e Dropout Piece\u003c\/i\u003e in the context of the artist's practice in New York and her subsequent life in Dallas. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Afterall Books\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Afterall Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47043275423984,"sku":"9781846381324","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781846381324_p0.jpg?v=1763746124","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781846381324","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}