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Books on Sol LeWitt

TngaborTngabor
edited August 2015 in General Discussion

Hey, just wanted to ask if someone can recommend me a good book on the artist Sol LeWitt? Looking at amazon: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_pg_1?rh=n:283155,k:sol+lewitt&keywords=sol+lewitt&ie=UTF8&qid=1440328763 there's a lot of options to pick from. Does someone here have one of those books?

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  • ChrisirChrisir

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sol_LeWitt#Selected_books

  • TngaborTngabor

    Yes i know how to google Sol LeWitt. ty. i was hoping for someone to tell me their opinion who has a physical copy.

  • ChrisirChrisir

    you could ask on the wikipedia discussion site

  • quarkquark

    Why don't you read the amazon reviews for each book.

  • TngaborTngabor

    I did. But having past experience with artist books, i know that a lot of them are just "catalogues" with little or no text ( like artist's thought processes... etc. ). And without the "look inside" feature on most of them i can't be sure. : (

  • nnnoooaahhhnnnoooaahhh
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    Sol Lewitt: Critical Texts Sol Lewitt: A Retrospective

    both contain texts by and essays about Sol Lewitt, both are rather large books. Critical Texts has very few pictures and A Retrospective is full of pictures. Both are quite expensive. Hopefully you can get them from the library. I hope this helps.

  • TngaborTngabor

    Thank you nnnoooaahhh! This reply is very helpful. Now i can narrow down my search. Thanks!

  • nnnoooaahhhnnnoooaahhh
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    let me know what you think of those Sol Lewitt books. Your question got me thinking a lot about Lewitt again, and reminded me of a few interviews with him I found online awhile back. Here are my favorites. overall they are somewhat general and give a broad view of his life and thinking. The books are more likely to have information about his process and specifics about projects. also, there is a book about his books in particular that is one of my favorites.

    link to a pdf of an interview at the Museum of Modern Art, pretty substantial, from 1994: www.moma.org%2Fdocs%2Flearn%2Farchives%2Ftranscript_lewitt.pdf

    another interview (and transcript) here: http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-sol-lewitt-12701

    another favorite, from BOMB magazine: http://bombmagazine.org/article/2583/sol-lewitt

  • TngaborTngabor

    Sorry for the super late reply Noah! Thanks for the additional input and links : ) I will definitely read them for sure! Have an awesome day : )

  • REASREAS
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    There are some books specifically about his wall drawings and others about his sculptures if you have a specific interest in either. University art libraries are often open to the public and the best place to browse.

  • TngaborTngabor

    Thanks for the answer Casey! I'll do that : ) Keep up the good work with Processing!

  • akenatonakenaton
    edited September 2015

    is this a question for processing??? -- what is the best book about marcel duchamp???

  • TngaborTngabor
    edited September 2015

    Which is why it was posted in the general section. In any case > Sol LeWitt > Serial and Rule-based Art > definable with algorithms > doable in Processing > Example; Casey Reas > http://reas.com/p8_s/

  • akenatonakenaton

    @Tngabor=== and so????? google for sol LeWitt... google for duchamp or Artaud or Malevich and don't make "general discussion" is it the place for??? why??? why about "shakespeare"

  • akenatonakenaton

    @ Tngabor=== (could be that you think that slv is only an algo) another problem!!!!

  • ChrisirChrisir

    that's why it is called general discussion: it's a general topic

    also, it even has to do with computer generated art

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