Art and Objecthood¶
Fried, M. (1967). Art and Objecthood. Artforum, 5(10), 12-23.
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- Abstraction in Art
- A common failure is confusing medium-specific with merely formal, or treating medium-agnostic abstraction as lacking rigor
This sourceCritique of minimalist sculpture as 'literalist' and 'theatrical'; supports the medium-agnostic/anti-minimalism shift in the medium-vs-universal tension (D37-011, inline).
- A common failure is confusing medium-specific with merely formal, or treating medium-agnostic abstraction as lacking rigor
- Minimalism
- Critics such as Fried (1967) and Krauss (1979) argued that minimalist convergence — what Fried called "literalist" theatricality and Krauss the structural sameness of the grid — risks producing interchangeable works.
This sourceInfluential critique of minimalist sculpture as "literalist" and "theatrical" — the foundational anti-minimalist polemic in art criticism, defining the convergence-toward-sameness risk.
- Critics such as Fried (1967) and Krauss (1979) argued that minimalist convergence — what Fried called "literalist" theatricality and Krauss the structural sameness of the grid — risks producing interchangeable works.
- Minimalism in Art
- The foregrounding of literalness and material presence so the work is itself rather than representing something else, the condition Fried (1967) named "objecthood"
This sourceInfluential critique of minimalist sculpture as "literalist" and "theatrical" — the foundational anti-minimalist polemic in art criticism, defining the convergence-toward-sameness risk.
- The foregrounding of literalness and material presence so the work is itself rather than representing something else, the condition Fried (1967) named "objecthood"
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