Illustrated throughout, this collection of his seminal essays from the 1960s to the 1980s addresses wide-ranging intellectual and philosophical problems of sculpture, raising issues of materiality, size and shape, anti-illusionism, and perceptual conditions.
Robert Morris is best known for his significant contributions to minimalist sculpture and antiform art, as well as for a number of widely influential theoretical writings on art. Illustrated throughout, this collection of his seminal essays from the 1960s to the 1980s addresses wide-ranging intellectual and philosophical problems of sculpture, raising issues of materiality, size and shape, anti-illusionism, and perceptual conditions.
Essays
Notes on Sculpture (Parts 1-4) • Anti Form • Some Notes on the Phenomenology of Making: The Search for the Motivated • The Art of Existence • Three Extra-Visual Artists: Works in Process • Some Splashes in the Ebb Tide • Aligned with Nazca • The Present Terms of Space • Notes on Art as/and Land Reclamation • American Quartet • Three Folds in the Fabric and Four Autobiographical Asides as Allegories (or Interruptions) • Robert Morris Replies to Roger Denson (Or Is That a Mouse in My Paragon?)
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