Locating Sol LeWitt

Locating Sol LeWitt
Author: David S. Areford
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2021-03-23
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0300246048

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.

Olfactory Art and the Political in an Age of Resistance

Olfactory Art and the Political in an Age of Resistance
Author: Gwenn-Aël Lynn
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 323
Release: 2021-06-14
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1000399648

This book claims a political value for olfactory artworks by situating them squarely in the contemporary moment of various forms of political resistance. Each chapter presents the current research and art practices of an international group of artists and writers from the United States, Canada, France, Germany, Switzerland, Thailand, Sweden, and the Netherlands. The book brings together new thinking on the potential for olfactory art to critique and produce modes of engagement that challenge the still-powerful hegemonic realities of the twenty-first century, particularly the dominance of vision as opposed to other sensory modalities. The book will be of interest to scholars working in contemporary art, art history, visual culture, olfactory studies, performance studies, and politics of activism.

Drawing from the Inside Out

Drawing from the Inside Out
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 224
Release: 1915-06-18
Genre:
ISBN: 9780996272704

Drawing from the Inside Out is a 224 page, three-course, college drawing textbook inone affordable volume. Drawing fromthe Inside Out offers 140 projects of drawing techniques and strategies spanning The Renaissance through Contemporary times. The unique textbook begins with composition and formal techniques for BeginningDrawing. Intermediate Drawing focuses on drawing in color. Advanced Drawing?The Creative Portfolio, features over 40 inventive projectswithin a contemporary drawing context, including a chapter on digital drawing. The book is illustrated throughout byinternational contemporary artists and masters whose works accompany each lesson. Brief essays discussadvancements in drawing from the Renaissance through the 21st Century. DRAWING FROM THE INSIDE OUT canbe referred back to for inspiration in the artist?s studio long after the courses ofstudies are completed.

Postwar Italian Art History Today

Postwar Italian Art History Today
Author: Sharon Hecker
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2018-06-28
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1501330063

Postwar Italian Art History Today brings fresh critical consideration to the parameters and impact of Italian art and visual culture studies of the past several decades. Taking its cue from the thirty-year anniversary of curator Germano Celant's landmark exhibition at PS1 in New York – The Knot – this volume presents innovative case studies and emphasizes new methodologies deployed in the study of postwar Italian art as a means to evaluate the current state of the field. Included are fifteen essays that each examine, from a different viewpoint, the issues, concerns, and questions driving postwar Italian art history. The editors and contributors call for a systematic reconsideration of the artistic origins of postwar Italian art, the terminology that is used to describe the work produced, and key personalities and institutions that promoted and supported the development and marketing of this art in Italy and abroad.