Sol Lewitt

"Circle, square, triangle, rectangle, trapezoid and parallelogram in red, yellow and blue on red, yellow and blue." - p..

"2005 Turner Prize winner Simon Starling is known for his investigations into the hidden lives of objects and images, and his catalogues are an integral part of his production. The Nanjing Particles, published for an exhibition at MASS MoCA, is a unique object that takes as its departure a historical stereograph of Chinese laborers brought to Massachusetts in 1870 to break a strike. Starling literally mined the photographs for their history, extracting from their emulsion two silver particles. Enlarged one million times, the microscopic grains were translated into stainless steel sculptures fabricated by workers in Nanjing. Taking viewers through the installation and the work's fabrication process, the book reiterates the visual and conceptual play of the exhibition. The cover, which features die-cut peepholes, mimics the form of a structure in the exhibition. Readers can use the book itself as a low-tech stereoscope to view the photographs - printed on the inside covers - as a single three-dimensional image."--BOOK JACKET.

"Though Sol LeWitt's books are not generally associated with narrative content, 'Cock Fight Dance' (1980) records the beginning of a cock fight in a format resembling a flip book. Once Le Witt's idea (of documenting the fight) has been acted upon, the artist merely records the process; the actions of the birds determine the true working out of the sequence. The birds strut, fly at each other, and appear to determined to follow the fight through. Suddenly, in the last few frames, a third participant appears: a cat slowly creeps toward the two embattled birds. The book ends on the tense, unsettling note of a system set into motion only to be threatened." -- Betty Bright, "Pick up the book, turn the page and enter the system : books by Sol Le Witt." Minneapolis : Minnesota Center for Book Arts, 1988, page .