Didi Bozzini

Exhibition catalogue / catalogue raisonné of artists' books by Sol LeWitt published in conjunction with show held at Museo Internazionale e Biblioteca della Musica, Bologna, September 15 - October 25, 2009. Traveled to BAS, Instanbul, Turkey, December 16, 2009 - January 12, 2010; Christophe Daviet-Thery Bookstore, Paris, January 16 - April 18, 2010; Site Gallery, Sheffield, United Kingdom, May 8 - May 29, 2010; and Intonation Centre of Graphic Arts (MGLC), Ljubljana, Slovenia, June 10 - August 31, 2010. Texts by Giorgio Maffei, Emanuele De Donno, Didi Bozzini, Cecilia Metelli and Marilena Bonomo. Includes excerpts of texts and book pages by LeWitt. Includes bibliography, critical texts and exhibitions devoted to the editorial work. Texts in English and Italian.

references
No. 286 in "The Book on Books on Artists' Books" by Arnaud Desjardin. London, England : The Everyday Press, 2011, pp. 158.

“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.… (meer)