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A Social Art Compatible with My Thinking: Sol LeWitt in the Changing Landscape of Conceptual Art in the 1970s
- Author(s):
- Katherine Jánszky Michaelsen (see profile)
- Date:
- 2014
- Subject(s):
- Art, History, Twentieth century, Photography
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- Sol LeWitt, unpublished letters, conceptual art, minimalism, History of art, 20th century, Conceptual
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/bzf9-7129
- Abstract:
- The title of this paper is a quote (28 Nov. 1972) from a collection of unpublished letters that Sol LeWitt wrote to a friend in Paris. In 1972 LeWitt was an established and successful artist with a crowded exhibition schedule. His letters -- often daily -- were written at a time when the forces of feminism and political activism of all kinds, combined with the immense sway of pop art, were noticeably changing the artistic landscape in a direction sharply opposed to LeWitt's personal conceptual proclivities. The paper focuses on developments in contemporary art in New York that Sol LeWitt observed and wrote about in his letters, and on a series of unpublished snapshots of his studio that eventually gave rise to Autobiography, 1980, a photographic work that is unique in LeWitt’s oeuvre for its merging of art and life.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 4 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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