Department of History of Art

Jo Applin Wins Mellor Book Prize

Posted on 12 October 2015

Many congratulations to Jo Applin who has been awarded the the Suzanne and James Mellor Book Prize from the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C

The prize, worth $50,000, is given annually to the best proposal that disseminates the highest quality of groundbreaking research Jo Applin on women artists from any time period and country of origin, and was awarded to Jo for her forthcoming monograph on American conceptual artist Lee Lozano. Jo's proposal 'Not Working: Lee Lozano Versus the Art World 1961–1971.

Jo commented "I’m thrilled to have been awarded the Mellor Book Prize. Lozano's decision to go on general strike from the art world, to boycott other women, and in the end to ‘drop out’ and stop working entirely, makes her an important figure through which to think about broader questions of feminism, participation, community, and the politics of work, and it is my hope that this book will return to Lozano’s practice a sense of its complexity and seriousness, assuring for her work a pivotal role in debates about the role of women in the art world at that time."

Read more about the award and Jo's monograph on artnet and on Artforum.

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