{"id":2850,"date":"2015-05-22T21:01:44","date_gmt":"2015-05-22T21:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cool.conservation-us.org\/cool\/osg\/?page_id=2850"},"modified":"2020-04-20T20:29:03","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T20:29:03","slug":"hogan","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/osg-postprints\/v22\/hogan\/","title":{"rendered":"Sol LeWitt\u2019s Wall Drawings: Conservation of an ephemeral art practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>John Hogan and Carol Snow<\/em><\/p>\n<h4>Abstract<\/h4>\n<p>Sol LeWitt\u2019s Wall Drawings create an entirely new point of departure in the creative processes of idea, visualization, variants, realization, immutable repeatability, and intellectual implications for artists. LeWitt\u2019s Wall Drawings are not physically artist generated and are non-artifact oriented. When the artist\u2019s intellectual intent and production are intended to be of a temporary but repeatable nature, how are the standards explained and maintained long term? What are the implications related to conservation, connoisseurship, and technical art history when dealing with practitioners of ephemerally based arts\u2014reinstallation versus repair, disappearance of original materials, repeatability, human participation in realization, concepts of non-cultural rarity, maintaining artistic integrity, cultural historical context, avoiding making an \u201cIdentical Copy\u201d but respecting the parameters of the \u201cIdea\u201d? Training future \u201cdraftspersons\u201d in the materiality, scale, process, and nature of a democratic hand is a critical component. Th is article addresses the role of the archivist of historical and current installations working with conservators at Yale utilizing their expertise to inform realizations of the Wall Drawings far into the future.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/osg-postprints\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2015\/05\/osg022-04.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Download full article<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"http:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/osg-postprints\/postprints\/v22\/\">2015 | Miami | Volume 22<\/a><\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Hogan and Carol Snow Abstract Sol LeWitt\u2019s Wall Drawings create an entirely new point of departure in the creative processes of idea, visualization, variants, realization, immutable repeatability, and intellectual implications for artists. LeWitt\u2019s Wall Drawings are not physically artist generated and are non-artifact oriented. When the artist\u2019s intellectual intent and production are intended to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"parent":2802,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2850","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/osg-postprints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/osg-postprints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/osg-postprints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/osg-postprints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/osg-postprints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/osg-postprints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2850\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/osg-postprints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/osg-postprints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}