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...viewer. Outdoors, it takes on what Curator Tuchman, 30, calls "a heroic quality." Besides, it gets the benefits of the California sunshine, which Tuchman, who is a recent migrant from New York, describes rhapsodically as "more diffuse, more intense, with a pervasive glare, a kind of luminescence." Sol Lewitt's white jungle gym, for instance, gains a thousand chunky highlights from the sun. The California show also clearly demonstrates that the new cool geometry, which is often combined with bright color or gleaming industrial surfaces, is a truly nationwide movement. And the West Coast is at least as skillful...
Space Warp & Optic Energy. Some of the objects have the look of an old-fashioned surrealist leg pull. Carl Andre's Lever, for instance, is 100 ordinary firebricks laid on the floor in a straight line. Sol Lewitt's No Title is a 6-ft.-sq. jungle gym of white painted wood (the idea is to look through the structure, not at it). But essentially the new minimalart movement announces that the engineers have now decided to make art their playground.* Much as the pop artists were recruited from the ranks of commercial and advertising artists, the basic...
...Witt and George Him are two artists who work as one. To millions who have seen their art, they are known simply as Lewitt-Him, and for 20 years they have been turning out some of the most imaginative posters, advertising art and book illustrations of the day. Last week Lewitt-Him, visiting Manhattan from England, were proudly strolling about the Associated American Artists Galleries exhibiting their first two-man show in the U.S. Among the exhibits...
During their visit, Lewitt-Him hope to line up some U.S. clients, and feel sure their ideas will not be lost on Americans. "If you can find something interesting in an object," says Le Witt, "you can interest other people. People like the vague bit of a puzzle, and once they get into it. they feel they are taking part in the creation of it." "Just," concludes Him, "as they accept the challenge of a crossword...
...affair was under the auspices of the Navy Wives Club with Mrs. Robert W. Leavenworth as chairman. Other committee members included: Mrs. William R. Yates, Mrs. H. L. Constant, Mrs. Harry Smith, Mrs. Lewis Levy, Mrs. R. H. Lewitt and Mrs. J. H. Reichart...