MORRIS, Robert

A radical sculptor and sculptural theorist, working with a variety of alternative ideas, Morris produced in the late 1960s a series of works, accompanied by several essays, that challenge previous ideas in several ways. In his criticism Morris favored sculptors working outside of the studio, with materials offered by Nature, such as earth; the use of previously neglected materials, such as felt, whose shapes necessarily depend upon gravity; and the creation of easily comprehended structures, which...