
Robert Morris: the Complication of Exhaustion
No one’s mind is likely to have been changed by the exhibitions of Robert Morris’ work that took place in New York and Philadelphia in the spring of this year. One interesting thing about Morris is that he seems to be an artist who—for many people—has remained extremely problematic although he has achieved the status of a major contemporary figure. Which is, I think, symptomatic of the complexity of his ambition. To remain problematic is to maintain the capacity to provoke, and this Morris continues to do in a way that elaborates an earlier statement of his own: "Characteristic of a gestalt is