Untitled (version 1 in 19 parts), 1968/2002
Felt, 103 x 85 x 44 in. (261.621 x 215.9 x 111.76 cm)
The Janet and Simeon Braguin Fund
2003.76.2a-q
©2004 Robert Morris / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Robert Morris began to make felt works in 1967 and continues to this day. He first showed them at Leo Castelli Gallery in New York in 1968; at the same time he published his influential and movement-defining essay "Anti Form" in Artforum magazine. In that article he wrote of the rising trend in contemporary sculptural practice to follow an inquiry driven by process rather than predetermined form: "Random piling, loose stacking, hanging, give passing form to the material. Chance is accepted and indeterminacy is implied since replacing will result in another configuration. Disengagement with preconceived enduring forms and orders for things is a positive assertion. It is part of the work's refusal to continue estheticizing form by dealing with it as a prescribed end."
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