Lee Lozano : Dropout piece

An examination of Lee Lozano's greatest experiment in art and endurance — a major work of art that might not exist at all. "Lee Lozano's Dropout Piece (begun c.1970) is one of her most challenging and elusive works. First and foremost, it is the name Lozano gave to her self-imposed transformation from art world insider to outsider. It is also a large-scale action carried out with lifelong, indeed posthumous, consequences. Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer presents Dropout Piece as a great experiment in art and endurance. Situating the work within the context of 'Life-Art' pieces such as Dialogue Piece, General Strike Piece, Grass Piece and Boycott Women, she demonstrates how Dropout Piece exhibits an extraordinary range of artistic intents. Drawing closely upon Lozano's private notebooks, Lehrer-Graiwer argues that Dropout Piece still haunts the art world today as oral history, ephemera and fantasy, and reveals how Lozano's practice advanced the relationship between language and performance and between private thought and urgent action. This title is part of the One Work book series, which focuses on the artworks that have significantly shaped the way we understand art and its history."-- provided by distributor Contents 6 Endnotes 95 Drop in to Dropout 7 What Makes a Piece 11 Life Before ‘Life-Art’ 19 Making Waves 24 Becoming Dropout 28 Simultaneity/Multiply by t 28 Seek the Extremes 30 Dictator to Oneself 34 Total Revolution 36 Applied Quantum Mechanics 41 Private, Man 43 Final Send-off 46 Post-Dropout 47 Lone Star 54 Last Ash of an Idea 54 Post-Dropout Postscript 57 Plates Section 63