Sol LeWitt: The Well-Tempered Grid (WILLIAMS COLLEG)

Sol LeWitt: The Well-Tempered Grid (WILLIAMS COLLEG)

Sol LeWitt: The Well-Tempered Grid is the first exhibition to focus on the centrality of the grid in LeWittâ€™s art. The exhibition focuses on LeWittâ€™s use of the grid as a generative matrix for his artistic production over the span of nearly five decades, from 1960 until his death in 2007. Inspired by his first encounter with the work of photographer Eadweard Muybridge in the late 1950s, LeWitt began experimenting with a loosely structured grid in several large oil paintings of 1960, based on the Muybridge motif of a running man. By 1962 he had simplified his use of this format to exclude figurative elements, and by 1964 he was making his first wall-mounted grid structures. When LeWitt made his first wall drawings in 1968 he used the grid as the underlying structural principle. Thereafter, grids became a pervasive matrix in all of the media in which LeWitt worked--three-dimensional â€œstructures,â€ drawings and gouaches on paper, photographic cycles, artistâ€™s books, furniture and wall drawings. Fully illustrated with 95 color images (and a plate section), the book includes three essays, including Charles W. Haxthausen on LeWittâ€™s relationship to the grid and classical music, especially Bach; Christianna Bonin on LeWittâ€™s relationship to Richard Serra and the wall drawing; and Erica DiBenedetto on LeWittâ€™s 1980 artistâ€™s book, Autobiography, a publication consisting solely of 1,101 photographs of LeWittâ€™s New York studio, organized over 128 pages in nine-part grids.
Country USA
Manufacturer Williams College Museum of Art
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber illustrations
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780913697313
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Williams College Museum of Art
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	illustrations
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780913697313
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Sol LeWitt: The Well-Tempered Grid (WILLIAMS COLLEG)

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