Robert Morris, installation view, Green Gallery, New York

“Black, White, and Gray” opened at the Wadsworth Atheneum in January, 1964...

“I can see the whole room! . . . And there’s nobody in it!” These words, borrowed from a dime-store detective comic book, where they float above the head of a man gazing out of a...

~In the context of an everyday world in which gunslingers traveling the road west fit between commercial...

The artists who came to prominence in the mid to late 1960s as Minimalist object makers working in three dimensions engaged in a highly self-conscious dialogue with the formalist paradigms that had dominated previous conceptions of the sculptural. This is evident both from the conception and staging of their work, and from their compulsion to reflect on and verbalise the larger imperatives guiding their practice. In the latter respect they were following the example set by David Smith, and …