Size matters

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  • Robert Morris Artista visual

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2178-0447.ars.2017.140397

Abstract

This text, published on journal Critical Inquiry, in 2000, addresses the relations between Minimalism and contemporary art. The author suggests the analysis of what he understands as a rhetoric of Minimalist Art, linked to an ideology of space and shape purity and to a notion of transcendence that meets its antecessors, partly, in Puritanism. Morris investigates how this discourse, allied to a social context and to a configuration of public space in which prevails the idea of life as a lifestyle, contributes so that the artistic production and the museums’ and art institutes’ actions, especially as of the nineties, get increasingly closer to the notion of art as entertainment.

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Author Biography

  • Robert Morris, Artista visual

    Robert Morris é um artista que escreve esporadicamente. Em 1994, publicou sua coleção de ensaios, Continuous Project, Altered Daily. Sua contribuição mais recente à Critical Inquiry é “Cézanne’s Mountains” (Primavera, 1998).

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2017-12-19

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