Sol Lewitt
Subtitle: Incomplete open cubes
By: edited by Nicholas Baume ; with essays by Nicholas Baume, Jonathan Flatley, and Pamela M. Lee.
Contributors: Baume, Nicholas.; Flatley, Jonathan.; Lee, Pamela M.; Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art.
Publisher: Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art; MIT Press [distributor]
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Hartford, Conn; Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 112
Subjects: Lewitt, Sol, -- 1928-2007; Lewitt, Sol, -- 1928-2007 -- Criticism and interpretation; Conceptual art -- United States; Cube in art; White in art
Description: In the 1960s LeWitt began investigating the cube—a form that remained an essential element of his artistic language throughout his career. But in 1973, the artist started to literally take the cube apart. The Conceptual artist’s exploration places emphasis on the idea rather than the art object, and so LeWitt asked: how many variations could be created by systematically subtracting parts from an open cube? For months he painstakingly worked through the artistic process and idea, and concluded with 122 variations of incomplete open cubes. The sculpture Incomplete Open Cube 6/19 represents the nineteenth variation of a six-edged open cube.
Notes: Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Conn., and three other institutions between Jan. 26, 2001 and Apr. 14, 2002.

Includes bibliographical references.