sol le witt post minimalism and jewish identity

Sol LeWitt: Post-Minimalism Sol LeWitt: Post-Minimalism and Jewish Identityand Jewish Identity

By Paige DansingerBy Paige Dansinger

Sol LeWitt 1928-2007Sol LeWitt 1928-2007

Wall Drawing #927 Loopy (green and blue), 1999. Wall Drawing #927 Loopy (green and blue), 1999. The Jewish Museum New YorkThe Jewish Museum New York

Wall Drawing #926 Loopy (yellow and purple), 1999. Wall Drawing #926 Loopy (yellow and purple), 1999. The Jewish Museum New YorkThe Jewish Museum New York

Black Form Memorial to the Missing Jews, 1987. Hamburg, Germany

Looking for LeWitt’s Jewish Identity

Sol LeWitt & Eadweard MuybridgeSol LeWitt & Eadweard Muybridge

Mishnah (Palestine, about 220 CE)

Gemara (Babylonia, about 500 CE)

Comments of Rashi (Northern France, 1040-1105 CE)

Comments of the Tosafists (France and Germany, 12th-13th centuries)

Comments of R. Nissim ben Jacob (Tunisia, 11th century)

Notes by R. Aqiva Eger (Prussia, 1761-1837)

Anonymous comment (printers?)

Key to scriptural quotations

Cross-references to medieval codes of Jewish law

Cross-references to other passages in Talmud

Printed announcement for an exhibition at the Dwan Gallery, Los Angeles

Modular Cube, Modular Cube, 1969. Art Gallery of Toronto1969. Art Gallery of Toronto

Black and White Open CubesBlack and White Open Cubes, 1965-1969, 1965-1969

Post-Minimal Holocaust Memorial Structures

Black Form Memorial to the Missing Jews, 1987. Hamburg, Germany

Block, Block, 1991. Concrete block. The Israel Museum Jerusalem1991. Concrete block. The Israel Museum Jerusalem

Double Negative Pyramid, Double Negative Pyramid, 1996. Concrete block. Europos Park, Vilniaus Lithuania1996. Concrete block. Europos Park, Vilniaus Lithuania

X with Columns, X with Columns, 1996. Concrete block. The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis1996. Concrete block. The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

Richard Serra, Richard Serra, The Drowned and the Saved, The Drowned and the Saved, 1992. Pulheim, Germany1992. Pulheim, Germany

Incomplete CubesIncomplete Cubes

Incomplete Open Cubes, Incomplete Open Cubes, 19741974

Incomplete Open Cube 6/4Incomplete Open Cube 6/4, 1974 Painted Aluminum, 1974 Painted Aluminum

Incomplete Open Cubes. Installation views The Wadsworth Athenaeum Museum of Art

Incomplete Open Cubes. Installation views The Wadsworth Athenaeum Museum of Art

Wall DrawingsWall Drawings

Wall Drawing #808, Wall Drawing #808, 1996. The Whitney Museum of Art, NY.1996. The Whitney Museum of Art, NY.

Wall Drawing #398, Wall Drawing #398, 1983. The Dallas Museum of Art1983. The Dallas Museum of Art

Wall Drawing #766, Wall Drawing #766, 1994. Color ink wash1994. Color ink wash

Wall Drawing #880, Wall Drawing #880, 1998. PaceWildenstein, New York1998. PaceWildenstein, New York

Wall Drawing #793 C, 1996. The Wadsworth AthenaeumWall Drawing #793 C, 1996. The Wadsworth Athenaeum

Wall Drawing #927 Loopy (green and blue), 1999. Wall Drawing #927 Loopy (green and blue), 1999. The Jewish Museum New YorkThe Jewish Museum New YorkWall Drawing #926 Loopy (yellow and purple), 1999. Wall Drawing #926 Loopy (yellow and purple), 1999. The Jewish Museum New YorkThe Jewish Museum New York