Autobiography: Sol LeWitt 1980

Read in Carrel #76 in the subbasement of the Harvard Fine Arts Library in Littauer (this book doesn’t circulate), this is a fascinating conceptual art book organized around LeWitt’s favorite principle, the grid. Two-by-two-inch photographs arranged in a three-by-three grid over 126 pages show every possible aspect and object in LeWitt’s New York City studio. Cracks in the plaster walls and tin ceiling, electric sockets, pipes, bathroom, kitchen and bedroom, shelves of books in his library and the materials for art fill these pages with nary a word of text. A bit bewildering but I guess one does emerge with a sense of the man and his work.