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词条 Robert Morris (artist)
释义

  1. Early life and education

  2. Work

  3. Death

  4. Artist books

  5. Writing

  6. Critical reception

  7. Exhibitions

  8. Art market

  9. Notes

  10. References

  11. Further reading

  12. External links

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}}Robert Morris (February 9, 1931 – November 28, 2018) was an American sculptor, conceptual artist and writer. He was regarded as having been one of the most prominent theorists of Minimalism[1] along with Donald Judd but he also made important contributions to the development of performance art, land art, the Process Art movement, and installation art. Morris lived and worked in New York. In 2013 as part of the October Files, MIT Press published a volume on Morris, examining his work and influence, edited by Julia Bryan-Wilson.[2]

Early life and education

Between 1948 and 1950, Morris studied engineering at the University of Kansas.[3] He then studied art at both the University of Kansas and at Kansas City Art Institute as well as philosophy at Reed College [https://web.archive.org/web/20090713231613/http://www.vdb.org/nonframes/smackn.acgi$artistdetail?MORRISR]. He interrupted his studies in 1951-52 to serve with the United States Army Corps of Engineers[4] in Arizona and Korea.[3] After moving to New York City in 1959 to study sculpture, he received a master's degree in art history in 1963 from Hunter College.[3]

Work

Initially a painter, Morris’ work of the 1950s was influenced by Abstract Expressionism and particularly Jackson Pollock. While living in California, Morris also came into contact with the work of La Monte Young, John Cage, and Warner Jepson with whom he and first wife Simone Forti collaborated. The idea that art making was a record of a performance by the artist (drawn from Hans Namuth’s photos of Pollock at work) in the studio led to an interest in dance and choreography. During the 1950s, Morris' furthered his interest in dance while living in San Francisco with his wife, the dancer and choreographer Simone Forti.[5] Morris moved to New York City in 1960. In 1962 where he staged the performance Column at the Living Theater in New York[6] based on the exploration of bodies in space in which an upright square column after a few minutes on stage falls over.

In New York City, Morris began to explore the work of Marcel Duchamp, making conceptual pieces such as Box with the Sound of its Own Making (1961) and Fountain (1963). In 1963 he had an exhibition of Minimal sculptures at the Green Gallery in New York that was written about by Donald Judd. The following year, also at Green Gallery, Morris exhibited a suite of large-scale polyhedron forms constructed from 2 x 4s and gray-painted plywood.[7] In 1964 Morris devised and performed two celebrated performance artworks 21.3 in which he lip syncs to a reading of an essay by Erwin Panofsky and Site with Carolee Schneemann. Morris enrolled at Hunter College in New York (his masters thesis was on the work of Brâncuși) and in 1966 published a series of influential essays "Notes on Sculpture" in Artforum. He exhibited two L Beams in the seminal 1966 exhibit, "Primary Structures" at the Jewish Museum in New York.

In 1967 Morris created Steam, an early piece of Land Art. By the late 1960s Morris was being featured in museum shows in America but his work and writings drew criticism from Clement Greenberg. His work became larger scale taking up the majority of the gallery space with series of modular units or piles of earth and felt. Untitled (Pink Felt) (1970), for example, is composed of dozens of sliced pink industrial felt pieces that have been dropped on the floor.[7] In 1971 Morris designed an exhibition for the Tate Gallery that took up the whole central sculpture gallery with ramps and cubes. He published a photo of himself dressed in S&M gear in an advertisement in Artforum, similar to one by Lynda Benglis, with whom Morris had collaborated on several videos.[8]

He created the Robert Morris Observatory in the Netherlands, a "modern Stonehenge", which identifies the solstices and the equinoxes. It is at coordinates 52°32'58"N 5°33'57"E.

During the later 1970s, Morris switched to figurative work, a move that surprised many of his supporters. Themes of the work were often fear of nuclear war. During the 1990s, he returned to his early work supervising reconstructions and installations of lost pieces.{{citation needed|date=January 2014}}

In 2002, Morris designed a set of seventeen pale blue and beige-coloured stained-glass windows for the medieval Maguelone Cathedral, near Montpelier in France. The windows, which depict the ripples of a pebble dropped in water, were produced by Ateliers Duchemin glassmakers and placed in restored romanesque window lights around the cathedral building.[9]

At the time of his death in late November of 2018 an exhibit of Morris' recent work "Banners and Curses" is on dispay at the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York City. The exhibition runs tbrough January 25, 2019. Morris attended the opening night reception for the show at the gallery.[10]

Death

Morris died on November 28, 2018, in Kingston, New York, from pneumonia at the age of 87.[11] He had married Lucile Michels and had a daughter Laura Morris.[12]

Artist books

  • Hurting Horses, 64 pages, 23,5 x 16,5 cm. Limited edition of 1500 copies. Produced and published in 2005 by mfc-michèle didier.

Writing

  • Continuous Project Altered Daily: The Writings of Robert Morris, October Books, MIT Press  
  • 'Notes on Sculpture  

Critical reception

In 1974, Robert Morris advertised his display at the Castelli Gallery with a poster showing him bare-chested in sadomasochistic garb. Critic Amelia Jones argued that the body poster was a statement about hyper-masculinity and the stereotypical idea that masculinity equated to homophobia.[13] Through the poster, Morris equated the power of art with that of a physical force, specifically violence.[14]

Robert Morris's art is fundamentally theatrical. (…) his theater is one of negation: negation of the avant-gardist concept of originality, negation of logic and reason, negation of the desire to assign uniform cultural meanings to diverse phenomena; negation of a worldview that distrusts the unfamiliar and the unconventional. (Maurice Berger, Labyrinths: Robert Morris, Minimalism, and the 1960s, p. 3.)

In Morris' book, Continuous Project Altered Daily: The Writings of Robert Morris, the artist includes a collaborative project with the art critic G. Roger Denson in which he lampoons the criticism of his work published over the course of his career up to the early 1990s. The chapter, entitled "Robert Morris Replies to Roger Denson (Or Is That a Mouse in My Paragon?)", lists thirteen questions submitted by Denson, with each question representing the criticism of Morris' work written by a different unnamed critic responding to a specific exhibition, installation, or art work. Instead of answering the questions, Morris has written an elaborate, comically absurd, satirical narrative that in many ways epitomizes the "only possible response" to criticism that had become fashionable in the so-called "demise of criticism" that some writers of the 1980s and 1990s heralded following the "deconstruction of logocentrism" postulated by the post-structuralist theorist Jacques Derrida. As one commentator, Brian Winkenweder, wrote:

"In his reply [to Denson's questions], Morris compartmentalized diverse aspects of his oeuvre into nine, {{Sic|?|hide=y|cleverly|-}}named alter-egos such as Body Bob, Major Minimax, Lil Dahlink Felt, Mirror Stagette, Dirt Macher and Blind. He also appropriated the brick-hurling Ignatz Mouse from George Herriman's comic strip Krazy Kat as rhetorical flourish to enhance his written answers to Denson's questions."

Winkenweder then cites the mockery to which Morris' critics are subjected in his absurdist satire, as bricks are hurled at each of Denson's questions.

"Hey, what's going on, Ignatz? Everybody is rolling on the floor and laughing. I've never seen such a hysterical gang of assassins. What, you read that ticket about our 'new tone of ironic self-reference?' And what? Body Bob threw the I-Box at the Major who then bent Stagette out of shape with the Corner Piece and Blind smeared cup grease on Dirt Macher's … wait a minute, Ignatz. You started this bedlam by throwing bricks at everyone, I bet....Get Body Bob out of that Kraut helmet immediately…No, I did not give it to Lil Dahlink Felt with the Card File. How could you think such a thing, Ignatz? You are so surly today. Why don't I punch my own ticket?" (Morris, 1993, 307).[15]

Exhibitions

Morris' first exhibition of paintings was held in 1958 at the Dilexi Gallery in San Francisco.[3] Numerous museums have hosted solo exhibitions of his work, including the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York (1970), the Art Institute of Chicago (1980), the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago and the Newport Harbor Art Museum (1986),[3] and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (1990). In 1994, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, organized a major retrospective of the artist’s work, which traveled to the Deichtorhallen in Hamburg and the Musée National d'Art Moderne in Paris.[5]

Art market

Morris is represented by Leo Castelli Gallery, Sonnabend Gallery, New York, and Sprüth Magers, Berlin/London. As a conceptual artist, Morris at times contractually removed from circulation. When a collector, the architect Philip Johnson, did not pay Morris for a work he had ostensibly purchased, the artist drew up a certificate of deauthorization that officially withdrew all aesthetic content from his piece, making it nonexistent as art.[16]

Notes

1. ^"Robert Morris," Encyclopedia of visual artists. Retrieved 30 November 2018.
2. ^{{Cite web|url=https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/robert-morris|title=Robert Morris|website=MIT Press|language=en-US|access-date=2017-07-13}}
3. ^Josine Ianco-Starrels (April 27, 1986), Robert Morris Works Focus On Environment Los Angeles Times.
4. ^Robert Morris Museum of Modern Art, New York.
5. ^Robert Morris {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130116135401/http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/collections/collection-online/show-full/bio/?artist_name=Robert%20Morris |date=January 16, 2013 }} Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
6. ^{{cite book|author1=Cindy Hinant, A Subversive Practitioner|editor1-last=Meyer-Stoll|editor1-first=Christiane|title=Gary Kuehn: Between Sex and Geometry|date=2014|publisher=Snoeck Verlagsgesellschaft|location=Cologne|isbn=3864421098|pages=32–33, 36|quote=Column was staged in February 1962 at the Living Theatre, New York, and features an element from Morris’s earlier work Two Columns, 1961, which consisted of two eight-foot-high rectangular plywood boxes painted gray. In the performance of Column, one of these boxes was placed vertically on an empty stage for three-and-a-half minutes, then a string was pulled, causing it to fall on its side, where it lay for another three-and-a-half minutes.}}
7. ^Robert Morris, Untitled (Corner Piece), 1964 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
8. ^{{cite book|title=Contemporary Art: Art Since 1970|isbn=0-13-118174-2 |year=2005 |publisher=Prentice Hall |last = Taylor |first=Brandon |pages=30 |location=London}}
9. ^{{cite web|title=Robert Morris - Maguelone Cathedral, France|url=http://ateliersduchemin.com/en/achievements/contemporary-artists/robert-morris-maguelone-cathedral-france/|website=Ateliers Duchemin|accessdate=6 September 2016|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160906144725/http://ateliersduchemin.com/en/achievements/contemporary-artists/robert-morris-maguelone-cathedral-france/|archivedate=6 September 2016|deadurl=no}}
10. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.theartnewspaper.com/amp/news/robert-morris-the-conceptual-sculptor-and-leading-minimalist-has-died-aged-87|title=Robert Morris, the conceptual sculptor and leading Minimalist, has died, aged 87|website=www.theartnewspaper.com|accessdate=December 1, 2018}}
11. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/29/obituaries/robert-morris-dead.html|title=Robert Morris, Sculptor and a Founder of the Minimalist School, Dies at 87|publisher=The New York Times|date=November 29, 2018}}
12. ^ {{cite web|url=https://www.copelandfhnp.com/obituaries/Robert-Morris-34/#!/Obituary|title = Obituary for Robert Morris|publisher=Copeland Funeral Home|accessdate=16 December 2018}}
13. ^{{cite book|last = Jones |first = Amelia |authorlink = Amelia Jones |pages=114–115 |title = Body Art/Performing the Subject |publisher = University of Minnesota Press | year = 1998}}
14. ^{{cite book |editor = Holliday T. Day |last = Chave |first = Anne C. |chapter = Minimalism and the Rhetoric of Power |year = 1991 |title = Power: Its Myths and Mores in American Art, 1961-1991 |pages = 134 }}
15. ^Brian Winkenweder, "The Homometrics of eInterviews." In Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture (9.1, 2009): http://reconstruction.eserver.org/091/winkenweder.shtml
16. ^Holland Cotter (November 1, 2012), [https://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/02/arts/design/drawing-center-reopens-with-guillermo-kuitca-show.html Works That Play With Time] New York Times.

References

  • Berger, Maurice. Labyrinths: Robert Morris, Minimalism, and the 1960s, New York: Harper & Row, 1989
  • Busch, Julia M., A Decade of Sculpture: the New Media in the 1960s (The Art Alliance Press: Philadelphia; Associated University Presses: London, 1974) {{ISBN|0-87982-007-1}}

Further reading

  • Nancy Marmer, "Death in Black and White: Robert Morris," Art in America, March 1983, pp. 129–133.

External links

{{Commons category|Robert Morris (artist)}}
  • {{MoMA artist|4108|Robert Morris}}
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20060509212436/http://www.guggenheimcollection.org/site/artist_bio_115.html Guggenheim Robert Morris bio]
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20030823005230/http://www.mcah.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/dbcourses/publicportfolio?portfolioid=209&x=19&y=18 Robert Morris, Publicportfolio at columbia.edu]
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20081121104814/http://www.vdb.org/smackn.acgi$artistdetail?MORRISR Robert Morris] in the Video Data Bank
  • Land Reclamation und Erdmonumente article in German by Thomas Dreher
  • Observatory near Lelystad/Oost Flevoland in Netherlands, illustrations
  • Allan Kaprow versus Robert Morris. Ansätze zu einer Kunstgeschichte als Mediengeschichte article in German by Thomas Dreher on the competing theories on art by Allan Kaprow and Robert Morris
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