Sol Lewitt

Author : Sol LeWitt,Giorgio Maffei,Emanuele De Donno
Publisher : Ass. Cult. Viaindustriae
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 48,6 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 : Veronica Roberts,Chelsea Weathers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 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 : David S. Areford
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 53,9 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 : 50,8 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 : Lary Bloom
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 54,9 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 : Christianna Bonin,Erica DiBenedetto
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Grids (Crisscross patterns) in art
ISBN : 0913697311

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Sol LeWitt by Christianna Bonin,Erica DiBenedetto Pdf

"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 : Unknown
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Art and photography
ISBN : UOM:39015006795838

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Autobiography Sol LeWitt 1980 by Sol LeWitt Pdf

Author : Sol LeWitt,Lucy R. Lippard,Bernice Rose,Robert Rosenblum,Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015015834479

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Sol Lewitt by Sol LeWitt,Lucy R. Lippard,Bernice Rose,Robert Rosenblum,Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) Pdf

Author : Sol LeWitt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Abstract expressionism
ISBN : UOM:39015046895671

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Incomplete Open Cubes by Sol LeWitt Pdf

Tiré du site Artgallery : "The "Incomplete open cubes" are a sequence of open-sided cube structures, each missing between one and nine of their sides. At once repetitive and varied, this series lays out 122 possible variations on the concept. The 'Incomplete open cubes' exemplify LeWitt's conceptual practice and have been widely interpreted as embodying systematic rationality; they are based on an arithmetic concept which they then take to its logical extreme. While they are internally consistent, they also manifest an irrational, obsessive quality reflected in LeWitt's own comment that "irrational thoughts should be followed absolutely and logically". Here he presents a binary between the rational and the irrational."

Author : Eva Hesse,Lucy R. Lippard,Kirsten Swenson,Blanton Museum of Art
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 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 : 36 pages
File Size : 49,7 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,Claudio Parmiggiani
Publisher : Gli Ori
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 8873361226

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Sol LeWitt by Sol LeWitt,Claudio Parmiggiani Pdf

Author : Sol LeWitt
Publisher : Walther Konig Verlag
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Art, American
ISBN : UCSD:31822030296131

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Sol Lewitt Books, 1966-1990 by Sol LeWitt Pdf

Author : David S. Areford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 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 : Rye Dag Holmboe
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 44,9 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.