Continuous Project Altered Daily: The Writings of Robert Morris (October Books)
Description:
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.
The 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?)
An OCTOBER book