Sol LeWitt: Photo Grids (1977)

A work by an American conceptual and minimalist artist. A book of forty six plates, each with nine color photographs taken and arranged in a tic tac toe grid by the artist with an eye to pattern. Subjects include paneled doors, window panes, gates and fences, cement and mosaic floors, metal bridgework, etc. Three years later LeWitt published Autobiography, which used the same grid format to tell the story of his daily life.

Publisher Paul David Press, 1977
50 pages
via The Dor (at Archive.org)

PDF (updated on 2012-7-15)

RoseLee Goldberg: Performance: Live Art 1909 to the Present (1979–) [English, Spanish]

A provocative history of live art traces the precedents of contemporary multi-media events to Bauhaus experimentalism and surveys the Futurists’ manifesto-like events, the Dadaists’ cabarets, and later “happenings” and “spectacles.”

Publisher Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1979
ISBN 0810914565, 9780810914568
128 pages

Performance: Live Art 1909 to the Present (English, 1979, 44 MB, updated on 2018-10-28)
Performance art: desde el futurismo hasta el presente (Spanish, 1996, 67 MB, updated on 2017-7-10)

Stephen Bann (ed.): The Tradition of Constructivism (1974)

“With these words the sculptors Naum Gabo and Antoine Pevsner pronounced the official birth of constructivist art, the most revolutionary, challenging, and enigmatic of twentieth-century artistic movements. Since the time of their ‘Realistic Manifesto’, constructivism has spread throughout the world, opposing personal, expressionistic art with abstraction and formal construction. In this book, Stephen Bann has collected the most important constructivist documents, including the writings of El Lissitzky, Theo Van Doesburg, Hans Richter, Victor Vasarely, and Charles Biederman—many of which have never before been available in English—and supplemented them with a critical introduction, a chronology of constructivism, and an invaluable bibliography of close to four hundred items. This volume is illustrated with thirty-eight constructivist prints, paintings, drawings, and sculptures, some of them are rare and previously unpublished.”

With an introduction by Stephen Bann
Publisher Viking Press, 1974
Documents of 20th-Century Art series
ISBN 0670019569, 9780670019564
334 pages

Review: Susan Compton (Slavic Review 1975).

PDF (no OCR; updated on 2012-7-15)