Locating Sol Lewitt

Author : David S. Areford
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300246048
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Locating Sol LeWitt written by David S. Areford and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-23 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revelatory consideration of the wide-ranging practice of one of the most influential American artists of the 20th century A pioneer of minimalism and conceptual art, Sol LeWitt (1928–2007) is best known for his monumental wall drawings. LeWitt’s broad artistic practice, however, also included sculpture, printmaking, photography, artist’s books, drawings, gouaches, and folded and ripped paper works. From the familiar to the underappreciated aspects of LeWitt’s oeuvre, this book examines the ways that his art was multidisciplinary, humorous, philosophical, and even religious. Locating Sol LeWitt contains nine new essays that explore the artist’s work across media and address topics such as LeWitt’s formative friendships with colleagues at the Museum of Modern Art in the early 1960s; his photographs of Manhattan’s Lower East Side; his 1979 collaboration with Lucinda Childs and Philip Glass and its impact on his printmaking; and his commissions linked to Jewish history and the Holocaust. The essays offer insights into the role of parody, experimentation, and uncertainty in the artist’s practice, and investigate issues of site, space, and movement. Together, these studies reveal the full scope of LeWitt’s creativity and offer a multifaceted reassessment of this singular and influential artist.

Author : Lary Bloom
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 0819578703
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sol LeWitt written by Lary Bloom and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-15 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A fascinating, detailed and moving account on the life and work of a truly genius artist. A must read for anyone interested in Art.” —João Leonardo, artist Sol LeWitt (1928–2007), one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century, upended traditional practices of how art is made and marketed. A key figure in minimalism and conceptualism, he proclaimed that the work of the mind is much more important than that of the hand. For his site-specific work—wall drawings and sculpture in dozens of countries—he created the idea and basic plan and then hired young artists to install the pieces. Though typically enormous and intricate, the physical works held no value. The worth was in the pieces of paper that certified and described them. LeWitt championed and financially supported colleagues, including women artists brushed aside by the bullies of a male-dominated profession. Yet the man himself has remained an enigma, as he refused to participate in the culture of celebrity. Lary Bloom’s book draws on personal recollections of LeWitt, whom he knew in the last years of the artist’s life, as well as LeWitt’s letters and papers and over one hundred original interviews with his friends and colleagues, including Chuck Close, Ingrid Sischy, Philip Glass, Adrian Piper, Jan Dibbets, and Carl Andre. This absorbing chronicle brings new information to our understanding of this important artist, linking the extraordinary arc of his life to his iconic work. Includes twenty-eight illustrations. “An insightful and intimate portrait of the artist, the man and his times.” —Saul Ostrow, Founder of Critical Practices Inc.

Author : Sol LeWitt
Publisher : Corraini Editore
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sol LeWitt written by Sol LeWitt and published by Corraini Editore. This book was released on 2009 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Books are the best medium for many artists working today," Sol LeWitt (1928-2007) once declared. A pioneer of artist's books, and co-founder of New York's Printed Matter bookstore in 1976, LeWitt is closely identified with the book as an art form. Starting with 1967's Serial Project No. 1 (from Aspen magazine), and closing with Chicago (Morning Star Publications, 2002), this book reproduces covers and spreads from Sol LeWitt's massive oeuvre of artist's books, almost all of which are now rarities. As artist's book historian Clive Phillpot notes, "the principle attribute of LeWitt's books is one common to all books: a dependence upon sequence, whether of families of marks or objects, or of single or permuted series which have clear beginnings and endings." Critical observations from LeWitt himself and a variety of scholars make this volume the most sustained treatment of LeWitt's prolific activity in this area to date.

Author : David S. Areford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780300253825
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Strict Beauty written by David S. Areford and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A landmark survey of Sol LeWitt's printmaking practice

Author : Sol LeWitt
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300083580
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sol LeWitt written by Sol LeWitt and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Om den amerikanske kunstner Sol LeWitt, født 1928

Author : Christianna Bonin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780913697313
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sol LeWitt written by Christianna Bonin and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This catalogue is published in conjunction with the exhibition Sol LeWitt: the well-tempered grid, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts, September 15-December 9, 2012."

Author : Sol LeWitt
Publisher : Gli Ori
ISBN 13 : 9788873361220
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sol LeWitt written by Sol LeWitt and published by Gli Ori. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Eva Hesse
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300204827
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Converging Lines written by Eva Hesse and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eva Hesse and Sol LeWitt formed a close friendship between the late 1950s and Hesse's death in 1970. This book celebrates this friendship and offers an illuminating look at their close-knit New York circle. It intends to demonstrate that the artists influenced each other's art and lives in reciprocal and profound ways.

Author : Rye Dag Holmboe
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262047624
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sol LeWitts Studio Drawings in the Vecchia Torre written by Rye Dag Holmboe and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2023-04-25 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intimate look at American artist Sol LeWitt’s masterpiece of conceptual art, drawn on the walls of a medieval tower in Italy. In 1976, Sol LeWitt made a large group of pencil drawings on the internal walls of the Vecchia Torre, a medieval tower in the Umbrian town of Spoleto, Italy. These fragile drawings, made on walls that are susceptible to degradation, have rarely been seen and never been documented, yet they represent one of LeWitt’s major works and a milestone in American conceptual art. This groundbreaking volume brings together an extended essay on LeWitt’s work by art historian Rye Dag Holmboe and a series of 60 photographic plates of the drawings by artist Joschi Herczeg, giving readers an intimate experience of this singular, site-specific work. A visual archive, this book situates LeWitt’s provisional, material, bodily, and highly personal drawings in their historical, biographical, and theoretical contexts. The result is nothing less than a reconsideration of LeWitt’s lifework. At once a work of conservation and a reflection on the relationship between drawing and architecture, Sol LeWitt’s Studio Drawings in the Vecchia Torre sheds new and welcome light on an unseen masterpiece.

Author : Elize Mazadiego
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526159945
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Charting space written by Elize Mazadiego and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2023-10-10 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the late 1960s cartographic formats and spatial information had become a regular feature in many conceptual artworks. This volume offers a rich study of conceptualisms’ mapping practices that includes more expanded forms of spatial representation. The book presents twelve in-depth case studies that address artists’ engagement with matters of space at a time when space was garnering new significance in art, theory and culture. The chapters shed fresh light on an evident ‘spatial turn’ that took place from the postwar to the contemporary period, revealing how it was influenced by larger historical, social and cultural contexts. In addition to raising questions about conceptualism’s relationship to the world, the contributors illustrate how artists’ cartographies served as critical sites for formulating their politics, upsetting prevailing systems and graphing new, heterogenous spaces.