Sol Lewitt
CCNOA, Brussels, Belgium
→ café libraryR.J. Preece - 01 Sep 03
...Sol Lewitt exhibited Copied Line (2002); he faxed written instructions for four artists to execute a line drawing in red, yellow, blue and black. Tilman. Tranforms & constellations, (2000). Site-specific installation with two- and three-dimensional wall and floor works. In his...
Serial Art (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 17 Jun 92
...Sol Lewitt, Donald Judd and Carl Andre embraced the serial idiom. Bochner characterized Serial Art as "highly abstract", an "ordered manipulation of thought... self-contained and non-referential". Serialism, he claimed, was premised on the idea that the succession of terms (divisions) within a...
Modular Art (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 12 Jun 92
...Sol Lewitt. An exhibition of “Modular Painting” curated by Robert Murdock was held at the Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, in 1970. See also Grids, Minimal Art, Serial Art. References and further readings > György Kepes. (Ed.). Module, symmetry, proportion. (Studio Vista, 1966). > Robert...
Minimal Art (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 12 Jun 92
...Sol Lewitt, John McCracken, Robert Morris, Richard Serra, Tony Smith, Robert Smithson, and William Turnbull. Apart from Tumbull, all these artists were American. Anthony Caro, another British sculptor, was included in certain Minimalist shows by some curators. The painters Kenneth Noland and...
Grids (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 07 Jun 92
...Sol Lewitt, Agnes Martin, Larry Poons and Alan Shields. Grids— which painters had traditionally used to square-up canvases— served as neutral armatures for artists to work with or against. As Sol Lewitt once noted, “a grid is a convenience. It stabilizes the measurements and neutralizes space by...
Earth & Land Art (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 05 Jun 92
...Sol Lewitt, Robert Morris, Neil Jenney, Richard Long, Dennis Oppenheim and Robert Smithson. Earth artists left the urban environment and went into the countryside, deserts and wild regions of the world. They rejected the conventional materials and methods of sculpture in favour of natural...
Conceptual Art (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 03 Jun 92
...Sol Lewitt’s 1967 "Paragraphs on Conceptual Art". As in concept art, language was all-important as a medium of expression but above all it was concepts or ideas that counted. As Lewitt observed, "an idea is a machine that makes art". Conceptual artists talked and wrote rather than painted or...
Book Art / Artist Books (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 02 Jun 92
Book Art / Artist Books (1992) Excerpt fr. John A. Walker’s Glossary of Art, Architecture & Design since 1945, 3rd. ed. Book Art / Artist Books Books are complex, multimedia products. They overlap the categories of literature, art and design because they are linguistic/literary entities and...
Laurie Anderson : Music + art (1987)
→ music + art roomJohn A. Walker (Cross-overs) - 22 Mar 87
Laurie Anderson : Music + art (1987) Excerpt from John A. Walker’s book, Cross-Overs: Art into Pop, Pop into Art. Laurie Anderson in performance, 1986. Laurie Anderson : music + art A besetting problem of the avant garde artist is how to break out of the art world ghetto. Laurie Anderson...
