Michael Lobel on Sol LeWitt

Michael Lobel is associate professor of art history and director of the MA Program in Modern and Contemporary Art, Criticism and Theory at Purchase College, State University of New York. He is the author of Image Duplicator: Roy Lichtenstein and the Emergence of Pop Art (Yale University Press, 2002) and James Rosenquist: Pop Art, Politics, and History in the 1960s (University of California Press, 2009). His writings have appeared in such publications as Art Journal, Artforum, Parkett, the Art Bulletin, and Oxford Art Journal. He has been the recipient of fellowships from the Getty Research Institute, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the Henry Luce Foundation/American Council of Learned Societies. His curatorial projects include a 2007 exhibition for the Neuberger Museum of Art, Fugitive Artist: The Early Work of Richard Prince, 1974–77. In the spring of 2012, he was the Terra Foundation Visiting Professor at the Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art in Paris.