Benjamin Buchloh
BENJAMIN BUCHLOH is a German art historian. He is a professor of Modern Art at Harvard University.
It would seem that Sol LeWitt’s proto-Conceptual work of the early 1960s originated in an understanding of the essential dilemma that has haunted artistic production since 1913, when its basic paradigms of opposition were first formulated—a dilemma that could be described as the conflict between structural specificity and random organization.