
Sol LeWitt
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Paragraphs on Conceptual Art
The editor has written me that he is in favor of avoiding “the notion that the artist is a kind of ape that has to be explained by the civilized critic.” This should be good news to both artists and apes. With this assurance I hope to justify his confidence. To continue a baseball metaphor (one artist wanted to hit the ball out of the park, another to stay loose at the plate and hit the ball where it was pitched), I am grateful for the opportunity to strike out for myself.
I WILL REFER TO THE KIND of art in which I am involved as conceptual art. In conceptual art the idea or concept is the most