Details
Robert Morris (b. 1931)
Fountain
seven felt strips
installed (dimensions variable): 96 x 93 1/2 x 10 3/4 in. (243.8 x 237.5 x 27.3 cm.)
Executed in 1971.
Provenance
Galerie Ileana Sonnabend, Paris
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1971

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"Form is not perpetuated by means but by preservation of separable idealized ends. This is an anti-entropic and conservative enterprise. It accounts for Greek architecture changing from wood to marble and looking the same, or for the look of Cubist bronzes with their fragmented, faceted planes. The perpetuation of form is functioning Idealism." (R. Morris, “Anti Form,” Continuous Project Altered Daily: The Writings of Robert Morris, 1993, p. 45)

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