ARTBOOK BLOGEventsStore NewsMuseum Stores of the MonthNew Title ReleasesStaff PicksImage GalleryBooks in the MediaExcerpts & EssaysArtbook InterviewsEx LibrisAt First SightThe Artbook 2023 Gift GuidesArtbook Featured Image ArchiveArtbook D.A.P. Events ArchiveDATE 4/25/2024 The Strand presents Joshua Charow launching 'Loft Law'DATE 3/31/2024 Behold the photographic work of Jay DeFeo, born OTD in 1929DATE 3/30/2024 Seminary Co-op presents the Chicago launch of Danny Lyon's 'This Is My Life I'm Talking About'DATE 3/15/2024 A gorgeous and compelling new exploration of bodega culture from rising star, Tschabalala SelfDATE 3/15/2024 Vintage girl power in ‘Las Mexicanas’DATE 3/14/2024 Celebrate Pi Day with 'Einstein: The Man and His Mind'DATE 3/12/2024 Kindred Stores presents Anita N. Bateman on 'Where is Africa'DATE 3/12/2024 Hot book alert! ‘God Made My Face’ is NEW from Dancing Foxes Press and Brooklyn MuseumDATE 3/11/2024 Artbook @ MoMA PS1 presents the launch of 'Richard Nonas'DATE 3/7/2024 Letterform Archive Press presents 'The Complete Commercial Artist: Making Modern Design in Japan, 1928–1930' with Gennifer WeisenfeldDATE 3/7/2024 Visions of the Black figure in ‘The Time is Always Now’DATE 3/7/2024 Rizzoli Bookstore presents Chloe Sherman and Noelle Flores Théard on 'Renegades: San Francisco, The 1990s'DATE 3/6/2024 Yelena Yemchuk to launch 'Malanka' at Dashwood Books | EVENTSMADDIE GILMORE | DATE 1/17/2017Lee Lozano: Private Book 1In the 1960's, Lee Lozano was living and working in New York, painting her own kind of heavy, bodily, manic work – rather than conforming to the then-dominant modes of Abstract Expressionism and Pop – and garnering the recognition of the art world corpus of galleries, museums and magazines. Simultaneously, she initiated a body of aesthetically opposite conceptual artworks called Language Pieces--scribbled, mostly instructional or task-oriented notes generally written in ink on standard 8 1/2 x 11 paper. Lozano considered these works "'drawings,' eliminating any distinction between them and her more traditional studio practice," according to Helen Molesworth's excellent text in Karma's illuminating new monograph, Lozano c. 1962. And yet, except for the fact that they were singled out as art objects, the Language Pieces are nearly identical to the journal pages that Lozano penned around the same time. |