seminar
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Maurice Merleau-Ponty expressed that outside things are ‘encrusted in the joints of my body’. Robert Morris expressed a similar sentiment in his essay ‘Notes on sculpture pt.2’ where he talked of how we experience sculptures though our movements around them, e.g. the way we compare ourselves to the monumental, step back, get up close and
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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
Robin Leverton 