Author: Garrels, Gary (editor)
Title: Sol Lewitt: A Retrospective
Description: San Francisco, Calif, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2000. Softcover. White & pictorial wraps, French flaps, 416 pp. 398 illus. (mostly color), 61 text illustrations; weighs 5 lbs. Issued in conjunction with 2000-2001 exhibitions featuring works by American conceptual and minimalist artist Sol LeWitt (1928-2007). Edited and with an introduction by Gary Garrels. With essays by Martin Friedman, Andrea Miller-Keller, Brenda Richardson, Anne Rorimer, John S. Weber, Adam D. Weinberg. A sumptuous catalogue with many large vivid color plates. "This book, the first retrospective of LeWitt's work in more than twenty years, fosters a deeper understanding of the artist's career and its significance to American art and thought." "Including essays by a number of curators and art historians, this volume charts the evolution of LeWitt's art from his work in Conceptualism during the early 1960s through his turn toward a more lyrical and sensual form of abstraction round 1980. With over 450 images, the book provides a visual survey of LeWitt's oeuvre from 1960 to the present, including wall drawings, three-dimensional structures, works on paper and photographs."--Jacket. Contents as follows: Sol LeWitt : an introduction / Gary Garrels -- Unexpected directions : Sol LeWitt's wall drawings / Brenda Richardson -- Construction sights / Martin Friedman -- Approaches to seriality : Sol LeWitt and his contemporaries / Anne Rorimer -- Varieties of influence : Sol LeWitt and the arts community / Andrea Miller-Keller -- Sol LeWitt : the idea, the wall drawing, and public space / John S. Weber -- LeWitt's Autobiography : inventory of the present / Adam D. Weinberg. VG/VG exlibrary copy with dustjacket in mylar. Small label at base of dustjacket spine and at top right of rear dustjacket cover. Faint stamps to top and bottom of text block. two other stamps inside as well as a check-out slip. This book was seldom checked out, and is in lovely condition.

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