Investigations
Subtitle: the expanded field of writing in the works of Robert Morris
By: edited by Katia Schneller and Noura Wedell
Series: Signes; Collection Signes
Publisher: ENS
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Lyon
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9782847884937
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; Semiotics and art
Description: "By investigating the prolific oeuvre of Robert Morris via the prism of writing, this collection of essays provides an incisive lens into the work of a central figure in the visual arts since the 1960s, associated in turn with minimalism, postminimalism, conceptualism, and land art. Morris has often been labeled a theorist, although his writing mobilizes a wide variety of genres. He has espoused the style of art criticism, the verve of the polemic, as well as the forms of prose fiction and autobiography. But beyond his writerly craft, he has incorporated text into prints, sculptures, performances, installations, weaving a tight net between text and visual practice. This book brings together contributions from art historians, literary scholars, philosophers, filmmakers, and writers to shed light on an important yet overlooked aspect of Morris' work."--P. [4] of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-261) and index.
Table of contents: title: Embedded writing --; title: Morris('s) Prints --; title: Continuous Project Altered Daily (1969): The Machinery of Art --; title: The lime of the Earthworks --; title: When Kitsch Becomes Form --; title: 'Like Laughter in a Ruin:"from Telegram to the Eighties --; title: A Theater of History --; title: The text/image problem under investigation --; title: Picturing Texts: Robert Morris'"Beetle in a Box" --; title: The Subject-Object Problem in"Aligned with Nazca": On Phenomenological Issues in Robert Morris'Artwork --; title: Triangulating Morris'Intention? Davidson on Morris Quoting Davidson --; title: Robert Morris and the Spaces of Writing --; title: Politics of Blindness: Robert Morris'Antivision --; title: A Parallel Unfuriing:The Problem of Description in the Work of Robert Morris --; title: Displacing genres --; title: Robert Morris and Allan Kaprow: Experience, from Theory to Performance Art --; title: Writing through Space: the Literai Practices of Robert Morris and Vito Acconci --; title: Role Play in the Writings of Robert Morris --; title: Addressing Oneself: On TELEGRAM by Robert Morris --; title: Exchanges: text to screen and back again --; title: From Text to Screen --; title: Script of the film Robert Morris: The Mind-Body Problem