Before her self-imposed exile from the art world, Lee Lozano (1930-99)
was a highly regarded painter who defined a generation of American
artists infusing conceptualism with a new intensity. A prolific writer
and documenter of both her art and her relationships, the public and
private, Lozano kept a series of personal journals from 1968 to 1972
while living in New York's SoHo neighborhood. In the decade before her
infamous "dropout piece"--culminating in a move to Dallas where she
would remain until her death--Lozano returned to these notebooks,
editing the entries, sometimes blacking out entire pages. Private Book
1 is the first in the series of 11 pocket-sized books, which are
printed as facsimiles.