Merleau-Ponty
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Session 3 began with a question on our behaviours: ‘When do I cry?’ For me the answer is not often, although I may want to or be in a situation that makes me sad and tear up, I can’t actually cry unless in very extraordinary circumstances. This is because it is a learned behaviour I
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Rosalind Krauss in her article ‘Allusion and Illusion in Donald Judd’ criticises Judd, who believes in creating works with no allusion or illusion, saying that his work does allude to other things. Allusion can be a property of the thing itself (e.g. I recognise a bottle because I know bottles because of my culture. Do
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Robert Morris’s essay ‘Notes on Sculpture pt.2’ looks at the relationships between the viewers and the objects on display in minimalist art. With the monumental, we are impressed and overwhelmed, sucked into the scale of the sculpture. On a small scale, we form a much more intimate relationship with it, we are able to close
Robin Leverton 