"While trying to save shape for (modernist) art, Michael Fried nevertheless reveals that shape is generally involved with the contextual and situational. In his critique of minimalism he observes that its investment in shape produces a pervasive effect of "hollowness." -Somol (see more in link below)
“The shape is the object: at any rate, what secures the wholeness of the object is the singleness of the shape. It is, I believe, this emphasis on shape that accounts for the impression, which numerous critics have mentioned that Judd’s and Morris’s pieces are hollow.” - Fried (see more in link below)
“The shape is the object: at any rate, what secures the wholeness of the object is the singleness of the shape. It is, I believe, this emphasis on shape that accounts for the impression, which numerous critics have mentioned that Judd’s and Morris’s pieces are hollow.” - Fried (see more in link below)
Fried, Art and Objecthood
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