Strict beauty Sol LeWitt prints

The conceptual artist Sol LeWitt (1928-2007) is best known for his programmatic wall drawings and modular structures, but alongside these works he generated more than 350 print projects, comprising thousands of lithographs, silkscreens, etchings, aquatints, woodcuts, and linocuts. This generously il...

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1. Verfasser: LeWitt, Sol (KünstlerIn)
Körperschaften: New Britain Museum of American Art (VeranstalterIn), Museum of Art (VeranstalterIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Areford, David S. (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: New Haven ; London Yale University Press 2020
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Zusammenfassung:The conceptual artist Sol LeWitt (1928-2007) is best known for his programmatic wall drawings and modular structures, but alongside these works he generated more than 350 print projects, comprising thousands of lithographs, silkscreens, etchings, aquatints, woodcuts, and linocuts. This generously illustrated volume is the first to take a comprehensive look at LeWitt's significant yet underexplored printmaking practice. Drawing together new archival research, interviews, and careful material and visual analyses, David S. Areford brilliantly situates LeWitt's prints within the broader context of his serial-, system-, and rule-based approach to artmaking. The specific processes of print media, Areford argues, were perfectly suited for LeWitt's particular brand of conceptual art, in which the "idea becomes the machine that makes the art."0With over 400 illustrations, many never before published, this study offers a more complete picture of LeWitt's oeuvre-and the essential place printmaking holds in it. The result will deepen the understanding not only of the variety of LeWitt's output but of the genealogy of his distinct geometric and linear formal language.00Exhibition: Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, USA (dates TBD) / New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, USA (dates TBD)
Beschreibung:"This catalog is published in conjunction with the exhibition 'Strict beauty: Sol LeWitt Prints', ... organized by the New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT and the Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA."
Beschreibung:287 Seiten
ISBN:0300253826
9780300253825