Locating Sol Lewitt

Author : David S. Areford
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-23
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300246049

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Locating Sol LeWitt by David S. Areford Pdf

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 : Sol LeWitt,Martin Friedman,San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,Whitney Museum of American Art
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300083583

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Sol LeWitt by Sol LeWitt,Martin Friedman,San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,Whitney Museum of American Art Pdf

Om den amerikanske kunstner Sol LeWitt, født 1928

Author : Sol LeWitt,Giorgio Maffei,Emanuele De Donno
Publisher : Ass. Cult. Viaindustriae
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105115361375

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Sol LeWitt by Sol LeWitt,Giorgio Maffei,Emanuele De Donno Pdf

"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 : Lary Bloom
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780819578709

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Sol LeWitt by Lary Bloom Pdf

“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 : David S. Areford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Artists
ISBN : 0300253826

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Strict Beauty by David S. Areford Pdf

A landmark survey of Sol LeWitt's printmaking practice

Author : Veronica Roberts,Chelsea Weathers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Art
ISBN : 1934435929

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Not to be Sold for More Than $100 by Veronica Roberts,Chelsea Weathers Pdf

Among LeWitt's great contributions to art was the invention of his own economic model Not to Be Sold For More Than $100 presents a comprehensive overview of conceptualist pioneer Sol LeWitt's numbered R Series drawings, which he created from approximately 1971 to 1979. As early as 1967, LeWitt had started making cut, folded and torn works, which he intended would always sell for $100. "His wall drawings were already selling for thousands of dollars, so he wanted to have some artwork that everybody could buy," notes Jason Rulnick. This body of work consists of over 800 folded, torn and cut paper works, including cut maps, reproductions, and manipulated silver gelatin photographs. Thanks to extensive research throughout various private and public collections around the world, this volume includes over 100 color plates, along with an index/description of all 870 known works, information that has been made available through the artist's day books and journals uncovered (in the studio) by Veronica Roberts. In the high-flying commerciality of the contemporary art world, LeWitt's intention and foresight for this body of work resonates more than ever today.

Author : Eva Hesse,Lucy R. Lippard,Kirsten Swenson,Blanton Museum of Art
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Artists
ISBN : 0300204825

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Converging Lines by Eva Hesse,Lucy R. Lippard,Kirsten Swenson,Blanton Museum of Art Pdf

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 : Sol LeWitt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Art, Modern
ISBN : 093385658X

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Sol Lewitt, Bands of Color by Sol LeWitt Pdf

Author : Sol LeWitt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Artists' books
ISBN : UCSD:31822019471689

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Sunrise & Sunset at Praiano by Sol LeWitt Pdf

LeWitt photographed sunrises and sunsets over the sea in Praiano, Italy, and arranged the images in grids, four per page, on thirty pages.

Author : Sol LeWitt
Publisher : Walther Konig Verlag
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Art, American
ISBN : UCSD:31822030296131

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Sol Lewitt Books, 1966-1990 by Sol LeWitt Pdf

Author : Francesco Stocchi
Publisher : Koenig Books
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3960983441

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Sol Lewitt by Francesco Stocchi Pdf

This catalogue gathers images of the works installed at the Foundation Carriero (Milan) and a previously unpublished biography on LeWitt, illustrated with personal and archive images, many of which have never been seen before and compiled for the publication by Sofia LeWitt, the artist's daughter.One decade after the death of Sol LeWitt the exhibition, Between the Lines aims to offer a new perspective on the American artist's practice, exploring its confines -- though always adhering to the underlying norms and principles of his ideas -- and singling-out the most interesting moments of the method of investigation and the processes that may arise.Curated by Francesco Stocchi and renowned architect Rem Koolhaas (his first time as curator) in close partnership with the Estate of Sol LeWitt, the exhibition is based on a powerful and innovative key to interpretation, aimed above all at reformulating the idea that a work must adapt to the architecture, thereby challenging the very notion of site-specificity.Between the Lines aims to move beyond the division that traditionally separates architecture and art history and which characterizes the artist's entire body of work, aimed more at the process than at the final result, free from any aesthetic or idealist opinion.Published on the occasion of the exhibition, Sol LeWitt: Between the lines at Fondazione Carriero, Milan (17 November 2017 - 24 June 2018).English and Italian text.

Author : Rye Dag Holmboe
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780262047623

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Sol LeWitts Studio Drawings in the Vecchia Torre by Rye Dag Holmboe Pdf

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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:81072440

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Sol Lewitt Wall Drawings & Structures by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1419366945

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SOL LEWITT WALL DRAWINGS & STRUCTURES by Anonim Pdf

Author : Susanneh Bieber
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000894806

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American Artists Engage the Built Environment, 1960-1979 by Susanneh Bieber Pdf

This volume reframes the development of US-American avant-garde art of the long 1960s—from minimal and pop art to land art, conceptual art, site-specific practices, and feminist art—in the context of contemporary architectural discourses. Susanneh Bieber analyzes the work of seven major artists, Donald Judd, Robert Grosvenor, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Smithson, Lawrence Weiner, Gordon Matta-Clark, and Mary Miss, who were closely associated with the formal-aesthetic innovations of the period. While these individual artists came to represent diverse movements, Bieber argues that all of them were attracted to the field of architecture—the work of architects, engineers, preservationists, landscape designers, and urban planners—because they believed these practices more directly shaped the social and material spaces of everyday life. This book’s contribution to the field of art history is thus twofold. First, it shows that the avant-garde of the long 1960s did not simply develop according to an internal logic of art but also as part of broader sociocultural discourses about buildings and cities. Second, it exemplifies a methodological synthesis between social art history and poststructural formalism that is foundational to understanding the role of art in the construction of a more just and egalitarian society. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, architecture, urbanism, and environmental humanism.