Art and Objecthood

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…latter magazine he published “Art and Objecthood” (1967), a controversial and influential attack on minimalist sculpture that revealed him to be a powerful champion of formalist art. Fried’s objection to what he saw as the theatricality of minimalist art was the emphasis on the situation, the event of the…
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