Robert Morris’s mandate for the development of sculpture ‘Notes on Sculpture: Part I and II’ (1966)8 and Michael Fried’s famous counter-attack ‘Art & Objecthood’ (1967), are so well-known
Liza Vasilievahas quotedlast year
except to make the point that the qualities that Fried identified as so problematic in the work of Morris and Judd (site- specificity, temporality, ‘theatricality’) are precisely those that have shaped what might be called the performative