对索尔·勒维特的版画实践的一次里程碑式的概述

概念艺术家索尔·勒维特（Sol LeWitt，1928-2007）最**的作品是他的计划性墙画和模块化结构，但除了这些作品，他还创作了超过350件版画作品，包括数千幅平版印刷品、丝网印刷、蚀刻、水印、木刻和线刻。这本插图丰富的书是**本全面审视LeWitt的重要而又未被探索的版画复制实践的书。大卫·S·阿雷福德将新的档案研究、访谈、仔细的材料和视觉分析结合在一起，出色地将勒维特的版画置于他的系列化、系统化和基于规则的艺术创作方法这一更广泛的背景中。阿雷福德认为，版画媒介的特定过程与勒维特的特殊品牌的观念艺术完美契合，在这种情况下，"思想成为制造艺术的机器"。

这本研究报告包含400多幅插图，其中许多是以前从未公开过的，它更完整地展示了索尔·勒维特的全部作品——以及版画在其中的重要地位。其结果不仅会加深对勒维特作品多样性的理解，而且会加深对其独特的几何和线性形式语言的谱系的理解。
A landmark survey of Sol LeWitt’s printmaking practice

The conceptual artist Sol LeWitt (1928–2007) is best known for his programmatic wall drawings and modular structures, but alongside these works he generated more than 350 print projects, comprising thousands of lithographs, silkscreens, etchings, aquatints, woodcuts, and linocuts. This generously illustrated volume is the first to take a comprehensive look at LeWitt’s significant yet underexplored printmaking practice. Drawing together new archival research, interviews, and careful material and visual analyses, David S. Areford brilliantly situates LeWitt’s prints within the broader context of his serial-, system-, and rule-

based approach to artmaking. The specific processes of print media, Areford argues, were perfectly suited for LeWitt’s particular brand of conceptual art, in which the “idea becomes the machine that makes the art.”

With over 400 illustrations, many never before published, this study offers a more complete picture of LeWitt’s oeuvre—

and the essential place printmaking holds in it. The result will deepen the understanding not only of the variety of LeWitt’s output but of the genealogy of his distinct geometric and linear formal language.