Main entry:

LeWitt, Sol, 1928-2007, artist.

Title & Author:

Sol LeWitt : folds & rips 1966-1980 / Dieter Schwarz ; with a foreword by Gianfranco Verna.

Publication:

Köln : Walther König (Verlag), 2020.

Description:

175 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles ; 32 cm

Notes:
"In 1966, Sol LeWitt conceived a new type of work "drawings without drawing," in which he replaced traditional drawing mediums with various ways of folding paper. In 1969, LeWitt started to regularly produce what he called Folds, first as gifts to friends, but increasingly as works to be distributed by his dealers. In 1971 he added the Rips, drawings made of ripped paper. Very soon, it became his custom to produce a number of Folds, or more usually Rips on the occasion of an exhibition and to leave them with his galleries. Always inventive, LeWitt went from ripping papers of various sizes and colors in different ways, to working with city maps, and airview photos of Florence, Manhattan, and Chicago from which he removed various defined areas. The systematic approach on which LeWitt's Structures, Wall Drawings and ink drawings are based was also applied to the Folds and Rips; they were often created in series, for which LeWitt used all possible combinations of tearing sides or corners off of a sheet of paper. LeWitt was deeply committed to the Folds and Rips. As he stated in 1969, "I don't think that a three-dimensional structure is more important than a doodled drawing in which the idea is first put down on paper, or a finished drawing or a photograph of the thing." The importance of the Rips in LeWitt's oeuvre is underlined by the fact that he numbered them, similarly to the Wall Drawings, from 1 to 890. The series of Folds stopped in 1976, followed by a small number of so-called Crumples; the series of Rips ended in 1980. In order to propagate his democratic view that art should become accessible to a wide audience, LeWitt requested from his galleries that the Folds and Rips be sold for not more than $100. This publication presents a concise catalogue of these works which today are dispersed in many private and public collections in Europe and the United States."--back cover.
Includes bibliographical references.
Foreword / Gianfranco Verna -- Folds and Rips: A documentary history -- The distribution of the Folds and Rips -- Catalogue of the Folds 1966-79 -- Catalogue of the Rips 1971-80.

Summary:

In 1969, Sol Lewitt started to regularly produce what he called 'folds', which were first conceived as gifts to friends. In 1971, he added the 'rips', drawings made of ripped paper. LeWitt went from ripping papers of various sizes and colours in different ways to working with city maps and airview photos of Florence, Manhattan and Chicago. The book comprehensively presents the 'folds' and 'rips' for the first time.

ISBN:

9783960987116
3960987110

Subject:

LeWitt, Sol, 1928-2007.
Art, American 20th century 21st century Catalogs.
Art américain 20e siècle 21e siècle Catalogues.
Art, American.

Form/genre:

Catalogs.
catalogs (documents)
Catalogues.

Added entries:

Schwarz, Dieter, 1953- author.

Folds & rips 1966-1980
Folds and rips 1966-1980

Holdings:

Location: Library main 308703
Call No.: BIB 254055
Status: Available