Sol Lewitt / Four basic kinds of Straight Lines
LEWITT Sol (Hartford 1928 - New York 2007)
London, Studio International, 1969, 20x20 cm., softcover with two metal staples, (32 pages), artist’s book without text (only a table of contents is included), with an illustrated cover and 15 black-and-white plates prin- ted on the recto side, unnumbered edition, fifth artist’s book by Sol LeWitt.
[Bibliography: Lewitt 1990: page (8); Lewitt/Legg 1978: page 87; Maffei/De Donno 2009: pp. 32-33; Tonini - Maderuelo 2014: no. 5, illustration on page 58].
LEWITT Sol (Hartford 1928 - New York 2007)
London, Studio International, 1969, 20x20 cm., softcover with two metal staples, (32 pages), artist’s book without text (only a table of contents is included), with an illustrated cover and 15 black-and-white plates prin- ted on the recto side, unnumbered edition, fifth artist’s book by Sol LeWitt.
[Bibliography: Lewitt 1990: page (8); Lewitt/Legg 1978: page 87; Maffei/De Donno 2009: pp. 32-33; Tonini - Maderuelo 2014: no. 5, illustration on page 58].
LEWITT Sol (Hartford 1928 - New York 2007)
London, Studio International, 1969, 20x20 cm., softcover with two metal staples, (32 pages), artist’s book without text (only a table of contents is included), with an illustrated cover and 15 black-and-white plates prin- ted on the recto side, unnumbered edition, fifth artist’s book by Sol LeWitt.
[Bibliography: Lewitt 1990: page (8); Lewitt/Legg 1978: page 87; Maffei/De Donno 2009: pp. 32-33; Tonini - Maderuelo 2014: no. 5, illustration on page 58].
“These drawings, using closely drawn parallel lines, were used to create a finite series. They also provided the vocabulary for further series. Later, four colors were added to the four lines. The directions of the lines (vertical, horizontal, and two 45-degree diagonals) were absolute possibilities. The colors used were the three primary colors (yellow, red, and blue) plus black. The page was white. Superimpositions of line and color provided progressive gradations of tone and color. In 1969, Peter Townsend, the editor of Studio International, published a book in which I created each page as a sin- gle variation, forming a complete, finite series. The color version of this book was later published in 1971 by Lisson Gallery, London” (LeWitt/Legg).
