On August 13th, 2012, THE WRITINGS OF ROBERT SMITHSON…

  art, books

The Writings of Robert Smithson, designed by Sol LeWitt, 1979

…the beautifully designed book edited by Nancy Holt and published six years after his death in 1979 by New York University Press (kindly presented to me last night by my friend who found it at Logos Books & Records, the very awesome Santa Cruz bookstore – with a surprisingly extensive knitting section by the way – after we all had dinner at Cafe Gratitude around the corner and before we went across the street at the old fashioned Del Mar Theater to see the Ai Wei Wei documentary) – and the brilliant super sophisticated 1970’s graphic design job is explained by the fact that it was designed by Sol LeWitt.