Ideas in Transmission: LeWitt’s Wall Drawings and the Question of Medium
Resource type
Journal article
Creator (person)
Lovatt, Anna
Date published
2010
Abstract
This article considers Sol LeWitt’s wall drawings as artworks poised on the cusp of the ‘post-medium condition’ of installation art. While the wall drawings are site-specific, they eschew the spectacular, immersive effects of subsequent multi-media installation art. They also adhere to the practice of drawing at the precise moment when conventional, medium-based categories were under attack. It is argued that LeWitt’s wall drawings refuted the modernist conception of ‘the medium’ as an autonomous entity, foregrounding instead its relational and communicative potential.
Journal title
Tate Papers
Issue
14
Publisher
Tate
Place of publication
UK
ISSN
1753-9854
Rights statement
In Copyright