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Title: Screw Suckcess: How Lee Lozano Dropped Out of Cultural Confinement
Page count: 24
Year: 2021
Black and white interior, full colour cover
Dimensions: approximately 5”x 6.5”
Content Warning: artworks that depict genitalia, foul language
This essay uses fragments from Robert Smithson’s essay “Cultural Confinement” (1972) to describe conceptual artist Lee Lozano and her systemic rejection of the art world. Lozano was a radical that did not allow her thoughts to remain as theories: she smoked weed as art (GRASS PIECE, 1969), refused to talk to women (BOYCOTT WOMEN, 1971), and made quitting art her life’s greatest work (DROPOUT PIECE, 1970). She put her ideas into practice throughout her life and received whatever consequences were due to her, proudly claiming them as pieces of feedback. In writing “Cultural Confinement” Robert Smithson examined issues of structural power, but Lee Lozano actively tried to fight back.
Features illustrations of Lee Lozano’s artworks by Amber Morrison Fox.
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