1. Art.
- Author
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Danto, Arthur C.
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ART exhibitions , *ART museums , *ARTS facilities , *ARTISTS , *MIND & body - Abstract
This article presents the author's views regarding the extensive retrospective exhibition of the work of Robert Morris at the Guggenheim Museum, uptown and downtown, have titled the exhibition "The Mind/Body Problem," probably because a certain number of Morris's works are animated by the old philosophical conundrum. A work of visual art-paint and canvas, ink and paper, metal or stone-yields nothing in point of grossness to the fleshy matter of which the arm is framed. So when one tries to perform a Wittgensteinian subtraction and ask what remains of the work of art when one take away its "body" viz., whatever has weight and takes up space and is subject to chemical action. One answer might be, nothing.
- Published
- 1994