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. 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. In 1963 he had an exhibition of Minimal sculptures at the Green Gallery in New York that was written about by Donald Judd. 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). It is set in the garden of the dialysis pavilion in the hospital of Pistoia, Italy. Work īronze Gate (2005) is a cor-ten steel work by Robert Morris. 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. He married dancer Simone Forti in 1955 and later divorced in 1962. He interrupted his studies in 1951-52 to serve with the United States Army Corps of Engineers in Arizona and Korea. He then studied art at both the University of Kansas and at Kansas City Art Institute as well as philosophy at Reed College. Between 19, Morris studied engineering at the University of Kansas. Early life and education īorn in Kansas City, Missouri to Robert O. 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. He was regarded as having been one of the most prominent theorists of Minimalism along with Donald Judd, but also made important contributions to the development of performance art, land art, the Process Art movement, and installation art. Robert Morris (Febru– November 28, 2018) was an American sculptor, conceptual artist and writer. University of Kansas, Kansas City Art Institute, Reed College, Hunter College
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