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Sol LeWitt: Four Basic Kinds of Lines & Colour


Sol LeWitt: Four Basic Kinds of Lines & Colour

Originally published in 1977, Four Basic Kinds of Lines & Colour is a classic artist's book by preeminent conceptual artist Sol LeWitt

Originally published in 1977, Four Basic Kinds of Lines & Colour is a classic artist’s 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. 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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CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 9/3/2019

Simply great: Sol LeWitt: Four Basic Kinds of Lines & Colour

Simply great: Sol LeWitt: Four Basic Kinds of Lines & Colour

If you’re wondering what’s the coolest, most uncomplicatedly pleasing and yet brilliant thing you could buy right now for $16, think no more. Sol LeWitt: Four Basic Kinds of Lines & Colour, co-published by artist-book-publishing royalty Primary Information and Printed Matter, is the perfect facsimile of the perfect artist’s book by the perfect book artist. Called “the starring attraction” of the LeWitt artist’s book retrospective currently on view at Printed Matter in Jeremy Sigler’s recent all-in Tablet review (where Sigler also compares LeWitt to Albrecht Dürer, William Blake and Maurice Sendak, among many other associations), this book is, literally, simply great. continue to blog


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