The proposal, entitled Not Working: Lee Lozano Versus the Art World 1961–1971 focuses on the artist’s notion, and rejection of “work”, in 1969 Lozano declared she was going on strike from the New York art world. Her career experiments with agency and authorship, art and politics and the rejection of these concepts. “This book explores the problem that Lozano’s art strike presents both for feminism and art history, and it will be a tremendous resource for scholars,” explains a statement from NMWA.
Applin is a senior lecturer in modern and contemporary art at the University of York, she is currently on leave as the recipient of a Philip Leverhulme Prize.
The Mellor Prize was created six years ago and is awarded to “the best proposal that disseminates the highest quality of groundbreaking research on women artists from any time period and country of origin.”
