Hard Hats and Art Strikes: Robert Morris in 1970

• Autores: Julia Bryan-Wilson
• Localización: Art bulletin, ISSN 0004-3079, Vol. 89, Nº 2, 2007, págs. 333-359
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • For his 1970 Whitney Museum solo exhibition, Robert Morris turned the museum into a “construction site” with his large-scale process pieces. He then closed the show early as part of a New York art strike to protest the Vietnam War. Investigating the historical circumstances surrounding Morris’s embrace and subsequent denial of hard-hat labor reveals a crisis of political art at this moment, particularly within the context of the New Left’s vexed relationship to workers. This exhibition has disappeared from Morris’s reception, yet it altered his artistic trajectory and enacted a pivotal redefinition of artistic labor in postwar American art.