Sol LeWitt: Artist´s Books

"Books are the best medium for many artists working today," Sol LeWitt (1928-2007) once declared. A pioneer of artist´s books, and co-founder of New York´s Printed Matter bookstore in 1976, LeWitt is closely identified with the book as an art form. Starting with 1967´s Serial Project No. 1 (from Aspen magazine), and closing with Chicago (Morning Star Publications, 2002), this book reproduces covers and spreads from Sol LeWitt´s massive oeuvre of artist´s books, almost all of which are now rarities. As artist´s book historian Clive Phillpot notes, "the principle attribute of LeWitt´s books is one common to all books: a dependence upon sequence, whether of families of marks or objects, or of single or permuted series which have clear beginnings and endings." Critical observations from LeWitt himself and a variety of scholars make this volume the most sustained treatment of LeWitt´s prolific activity in this area to date.