Four basic kinds of lines & colour, Sol Lewitt
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Four basic kinds of lines & colour, Sol Lewitt
Language
eng
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
no index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Four basic kinds of lines & colour
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Oclc number
1114306417
Responsibility statement
Sol Lewitt
Summary
Four basic kinds of lines & colour is a classic artists' book by preeminent conceptual artist Sol LeWitt (1928-2007). Featuring 34 pages of drawings, the work is an early example of LeWitt's rigorous, algorithmic process in which a set of rules, applied to generate an image, are subsequently run through all of their permutations. In the late 1960s LeWitt began applying this technique, first developed for his wall drawings, to "artists' books", a term that was coined two years after this book appeared. In this publication, LeWitt demonstrates the 34 ways that basic lines (horizontal, vertical, left-facing diagonal and right-facing diagonal) can be rendered in four colors (red, yellow, blue and black), with each page displaying a single combination (for example, horizontal lines in blue). The book is one of LeWitt's signature bookworks, which in its original edition remains quite scarce, so this new facsimile edition is significant; almost none, if any, of his books (he produced over 50) have been reprinted
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Four basic kinds of lines and colourFour basic kinds of lines and colorSol LeWitt
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- Conceptual art -- New York (State) -- New York -- 20th century
- Artists' books -- New York (State) -- 21st century
- Facsimiles
- Drawing, American -- 20th century
- Artists' books -- New York (State) -- New York -- 20th century -- Facsimiles -- 21st century -- Specimens
- Artists' books
- Jewish artists -- New York (State) -- New York -- 20th century
- Line (Art)
- Minimal art -- New York (State) -- New York -- 20th century
- Artists' books
- Specimens
- Color in art
- Russian American artists -- New York (State) -- New York -- 20th century
- Illustrated works
- LeWitt, Sol, 1928-2007
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- Conceptual art -- New York (State) -- New York -- 20th century
- Artists' books -- New York (State) -- 21st century
- Facsimiles
- Drawing, American -- 20th century
- Artists' books -- New York (State) -- New York -- 20th century -- Facsimiles -- 21st century -- Specimens
- Artists' books
- Jewish artists -- New York (State) -- New York -- 20th century
- Line (Art)
- Minimal art -- New York (State) -- New York -- 20th century
- Artists' books
- Specimens
- Color in art
- Russian American artists -- New York (State) -- New York -- 20th century
- Illustrated works
- LeWitt, Sol, 1928-2007
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- Artist1
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