书名：Locating Sol LeWitt / 寻找索尔·勒维特

作者：David S. Areford

出版：Yale University Press，2021年

装帧：精装，288页

语种：英文

尺寸：19*25.4 cm

对20世纪最具影响力的美国艺术家之一广泛的艺术实践进行的一次启发性的审视

作为极简主义和观念艺术的先驱，索尔·勒维特（Sol LeWitt，1928—2007）以其宏大的墙绘作品而闻名。然而，勒维特广泛的艺术实践还包括雕塑、版画、摄影、艺术家书籍、素描、蛋彩画以及折叠和撕纸作品。本书从勒维特作品中为人熟知到未得到充分重视的各个方面，探讨了他的艺术是如何跨学科、幽默、富有哲理甚至具有宗教意味的。

《寻找索尔·勒维特》包含九篇新文章，这些文章探讨了这位艺术家跨媒介的作品，并涉及诸如勒维特在20世纪60年代初与同事在纽约现代艺术博物馆的友谊对其创作的影响；他拍摄的曼哈顿下东区照片；他1979年与露辛达·蔡尔兹（Lucinda Childs）和菲利普·格拉斯（Philip Glass）的合作及其对他版画创作的影响；以及他与犹太历史和大屠杀相关的委托作品等主题。这些文章深入探讨了模仿、实验和不确定性在艺术家实践中的作用，并研究了场地、空间和运动等问题。这些研究共同揭示了勒维特创造力的全貌，并对这位独特且有影响力的艺术家进行了多方面的重新评估。

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.