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Drawing From The Modern»rank: 503089by: Agnes Martin, Gary Garrels, Carl Andre, Willem de Kooning, Eva Hesse, Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, Sol Lewitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Brice Marden, Barnett Newman, Claes Oldenburg, Jackson Pollock, Robert Rauschenberg, Richard Serra, Cy Twombly, Dan Flavin
: :Visual art in the period following World War II witnessed landmark transformations. Today, drawing provides a powerful and vigorous device for reexamining the art of that period, and for renewing appreciation of the extraordinary achievements of well-known artists--and for discovering others. Even though the art of these years saw radical departures and shifts, drawing, which is among the most traditional of media, played a crucial and consistent role in the work of a great majority of the most significant artists. Drawing from the Modern, 1945-1975, surveys the drawing of the period through the unparalleled holdings of the drawings collection of The Museum of Modern Art. The postwar period saw the development of ... |
Sol LeWitt: Wall Drawings»rank: 426686by: Sol Lewitt
: :Sol LeWitt, who once worked as a draftsman for I. M. Pei, has said of his own directions for drawings executed by collaborators that, 'The contribution brought by the draftsman may not be predicted by the artist, even when the artist is also the draftsman.' This separation of the plan, the written score for a work, from its execution and the finished piece lies at the center of the work for which LeWitt is best known, whose execution he entrusts to strangers. Wall Drawings tracks the creation of one recent work, beginning with the plan, so spare that it looks as though it might have arrived at the gallery by fax, and ... |
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Sol Lewitt, prints, 1970-86»rank: 3681114by: Sol Lewitt
: :Begun in 1974, Incomplete Open Cubes is a sophisticated and elaborate expression of conceptualist art-making by Sol LeWitt, one of the most influential abstract artists of his generation. No other serial project by LeWitt or his contemporaries embodies with such eloquence so many of the central artistic concerns of the period. Incomplete Open Cubes exemplifies the deployment of a single idea to become, in LeWitt's words, 'a machine that makes the art.' The work forges a new way of making art in its ambitious use of a serial system that enables a kind of 'noncompositional composition.' The translation of the same idea into different scales and media is another key aspect of ... |
LeWitt x 2»rank: 847891by: Sol Lewitt, Carl Andre, Donald Judd
: :'LeWitt x 2 offers a unique perspective on the work of renowned Minimalist and Conceptualist Sol LeWitt, documenting the arc of his career alongside his personal collection of contemporary art. LeWitt is one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century. His geometric sculptures, groundbreaking wall drawings and striking works on paper have defined and pushed the limits of art-making for over 40 years. During that time, LeWitt and his wife Carol have further contributed to the art world by compiling and safeguarding a collection of contemporary art, just as they encourage the next generation of artists. LeWitt x 2 presents a selection of work from the LeWitt collection, featuring Carl ... |
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Sol LeWitt: Seven Basic Colors and All Their Combinations in a Square Within a Square»rank: 771141by: Heinz Liesbrock, Sol Lewitt
: :Josef Albers and Sol LeWitt are split by fundamentally different understandings of their work, but united by a powerful, overarching and defining goal, the avoidance of emphatic ideas of authorship and the de-emphasis, even, of the star system inside an author's own oeuvre. Both keep their works from getting uppity by making each one part of a serial long-term study, rather than an individual potential masterpiece. LeWitt acknowledges and pays tribute to Albers's significance in his artistic development, and to the two men's connections, in Seven Basic Colors and All Their Combinations in a Square Within a Square, the title wall drawing, installed in the Josef Albers Museum Quadrat in Bottrop and ... |
Between the Lines: A Coloring Book of Drawings by Contemporary Artists»rank: 464529by: Sol Lewitt, R. Crumb, Alexis Rockman
: :What if an ordinary little coloring book were to be upgraded with a set of 54 energetic line drawings by some of today's best-known contemporary artists instead of the usual dumbed-down pedagogical renderings? And what if the proceeds from the sale of this high-art coloring book were to go to a worthy charitable organization that seeks to install upbeat, original contemporary artworks in participating hospitals? Well, then you would have Between the Lines, this lively new collection of work by Vito Acconci, Rita Ackermann, John Baldessari, Jeremy Blake, Will Cotton, R. Crumb, Keith Haring, Sol LeWitt, Robert Longo, John Lurie, Robert Mapplethorpe, Jason Middlebrook, Julian Opie, Laura Owens, Alexis Rockman, Kenny Scharf, ... |
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0 To 9 (Lost Literature)»rank: 775538from: Ugly Duckling Presse/Lost Literature Series
: :Published from 1967 to 1969 in seven limited mimeographed editions, 0 to 9 was edited by artist Vito Acconci and poet Bernadette Mayer. Seeking to explore the relationship between language and the page, Mayer and Acconci brought together the pioneers of 1960s experimental poetry and conceptual art. Sol LeWitt, Adrian Piper, Dan Graham, Ted Berrigan, Clark Coolidge, Robert Barry, Les Levine, Robert Smithson, Hannah Weiner, Emmett Williams, Dick Higgins, Yvonne Rainer, Aram Saroyan, Bernar Venet, Alan Sondheim and the editors themselves are but a few of the artists and writers who appeared in 0 to 9. |
The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography 1960-1982»rank: 260893by: Giovanni Anselmo, Stefan Gronnert, Pamela Lee, Geoffrey Batchen, Richard Flood, Peter Fischli, David Weiss, Mel Bochner, Sarah Charlesworth, Jan Dibbets, Valie Export, Vito Acconci, Bas Jan Ader, John Baldessari, Joseph Beuys, Christian Boltanski, Marcel Broodthaers, Dan Graham, Barbara Kruger, Sol Lewitt, Douglas Fogle, Kathy Halbreich
: :Photography has become an increasingly pervasive medium of choice in contemporary art practice and is even employed at times by artists who do not necessarily consider themselves to be photographers. How did this come to be? The Last Picture Show will address the emergence of this phenomenon of artists using photography by tracing the development of conceptual trends in postwar photographic practice from its first glimmerings in the 60s in the work of artists such as Bernd & Hilla Becher, Ed Ruscha and Bruce Nauman, to its rise to art-world prominence in the work of the artists of the late 70s and early 80s including Sherrie Levine, Richard Prince and Cindy Sherman. ... |
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Edge Of Awareness, The»rank: 1237231by: Sol Lewitt, Robert Rauschenberg
: :Artwork by Sol Lewitt, Robert Rauschenberg. Edited by Octavio Zaya. Contributions by Fawzia Assad. |
Sol Lewitt: 100 Cubes»rank: 1421811by: Sol Lewitt
: :Artwork by Sol Lewitt. Edited by Christina Bechtler. Contributions by Charlotte von Koerber. |