Description
This book presents his own writings, letters, statements, interviews, diagrams, and sketches, offering us a glimpse into a structured and systematic thought process, a kind of formal mathematics. LeWitt was a key artist for his generation and, to a large extent, remains indispensable for understanding the present.
“Conceptual artists are more mystical than rationalists. In a second, they reach conclusions that logic cannot attain.” – SL.
About
Sol LeWitt holds a privileged place in history as an artist who also served as a theorist of conceptual art. He firmly believed in the artist as the generator of ideas. A pragmatic intellectual, he added a new dimension to the role of the artist, marking a transitional phase from modernism to contemporary art, far removed from abstract expressionism or any form of romanticism. For LeWitt, the artwork is the idea itself and how it can be considered a work and a product in itself, placing emphasis on the process or the project rather than the construction of the object. “An artist must be willing to conceive of a work of art and delegate its production to others, or perhaps, at the extreme, not even have to make it
