Sol LeWitt. Lary Bloom

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      Sol LeWitt

      ALSO BY LARY BLOOM

       The Writer Within

       Lary Bloom’s Connecticut Notebook

       Something Personal

       Alone Together

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      The Test of Our Times (with Tom Ridge)

      The Ignorant Maestro (with Itay Talgam)

      When the Game is on the Line (with Rick Horrow)

      Twain’s World (editor and contributor)

      A Still, Small Voice (contributor)

      Conversations with Yusef Komunyakaa (contributor)

      The Book That Changed My Life (contributor)

      This New England (contributor)

      Miles Ahead (with Bill Andresen)

       Ensign-Bickford 1936–2011

      A

      DRIFTLESS CONNECTICUT

      SERIES BOOK

      This book is a 2019 selection in the

      Driftless Connecticut Series, for an

      outstanding book in any field on a

      Connecticut topic or written by a

      Connecticut author.

      Sol LeWitt

      A LIFE OF IDEAS

      LARY BLOOM

      WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY PRESS

      Middletown, Connecticut

      Wesleyan University Press

      Middletown CT 06459

       www.wesleyan.edu/wespress

      © 2019 Lary Bloom

      All rights reserved

      Manufactured in the United States of America

      Designed by Rich Hendel

      Typeset in Utopia and Owen fonts by

      Passumpsic Publishing

      The Driftless Connecticut Series is funded by the

      Beatrice Fox Auerbach Foundation Fund

      at the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data available upon request

      Hardcover ISBN: 978–0-8195–7868–6

      Ebook ISBN: 978–0-8195–7870–9

      5 4 3 2 1

      Front cover illustration: Sol LeWitt in his Hester Street Studio, August 1969 by Jack Robinson, courtesy of the Hulton Archive and Getty Images.

      TO SUZANNE

      CONTENTS

       Introduction / xi

       1. THE LIFE OF STUFF / 1

       2. SOLLY / 6

       3. THE BOY FROM SYRACUSE / 25

       4. THE ART OF WAR / 34

       5. LOST IN THE CITY / 48

       6. STIRRINGS / 63

       7. “WHAT WOULD SOL DO?” / 87

       8. PARAGRAPHS OF ART / 113

       9. UP THE WALLS / 136

       10. SEPARATIONS / 160

       11. CIAO, ITALY / 170

       12. ART AND TRUST / 191

       13. HOMETOWN BLUES / 218

       14. TOUCHING NERVES / 245

       15. COLLECTING LEWITT / 264

       16. THE WORK OF A LIFETIME / 282

       EPILOGUE / 294

       Acknowledgments / 301

       Notes / 305

       Bibliography / 337

       Index / 341

       Illustrations 138

      INTRODUCTION

      In June 2011, four years after Sol LeWitt’s death, Vanity Fair published a short piece that became a call to biographical action. A photograph СКАЧАТЬ