{"product_id":"have-i-reasons-work-and-writings-1993-2007-paperback","title":"Have I Reasons: Work and Writings, 1993-2007 - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRobert Morris\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobert Morris, a leading figure in postwar American art, is best known as a pioneer of minimalist sculpture, process art, and earthworks. Yet Morris has resisted affiliation with any one movement or style. An extraordinarily versatile artist, he has produced dances, performance pieces, prints, paintings, drawings, and installations, working with materials including plywood, felt, dirt, aluminum, steel mesh, fiberglass, and encaustic. Throughout his career, Morris has written influential critical essays, commenting on his own work as well as that of other artists, and exploring through text many of the theoretical concerns addressed in his artwork-about perception, materiality, space, and the process of artmaking. \u003ci\u003eHave I Reasons\u003c\/i\u003e presents seventeen of Morris's essays, six of which have never been published before. Written over the past fifteen years, the essays, along with the volume's many illustrations, provide an invaluable record of the recent thought of a major American artist.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe writings are arranged chronologically, beginning with \"Indiana Street,\" a vivid autobiographical account of the artist's early years in Kansas City, Missouri. \u003ci\u003eHave I Reasons\u003c\/i\u003e includes reflections on Morris's own site-specific installations; transcripts of seminars he conducted in conjunction with exhibitions; and the textual element of \u003ci\u003eThe Birthday Boy\u003c\/i\u003e, the two-screen video-and-sound piece he installed at the Galleria dell'Accademia in Florence, Italy, on the occasion of the five hundredth anniversary of Michelangelo's \u003ci\u003eDavid\u003c\/i\u003e. Essays range from original interpretations of Cézanne's Mont Sainte-Victoire paintings and Jasper Johns' early work to engagements with one of Morris's most significant interlocutors, the philosopher Donald Davidson. \u003ci\u003eHave I Reasons\u003c\/i\u003e conveys not only Morris's enduring deep interest in philosophy and issues of resemblance and representation but also his more recent turn toward directly addressing contemporary social and political issues such as corporate excess and preemptive belligerence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobert Morris is one of the most important postwar American artists. Have I Reasons\" is a valuable resource for an understanding and reconsideration of his work and the postwar neo-avant-garde production in which it played such a pivotal role. Compared to his seminal earlier writings, those from the 1990s and beyond collected here are more insistently autobiographical, more overtly and straightforwardly political. This transformation is one that, at least in part, reflects a transformation in his visual art.\"--Branden W. Joseph, author of \"Random Order: Robert Rauschenberg and the Neo-Avant-Garde\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobert Morris (b. 1931) is Distinguished Professor of Art History at Hunter College, The City University of New York. His art has been shown around the world, including in retrospectives at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Deichtorhallen in Hamburg, the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, and the Centro per l'arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci in Prato. He has been widely published in periodicals including \u003ci\u003eArtforum\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCritical Inquiry\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eArt in America\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eOctober\u003c\/i\u003e. His essays from the 1960s through the 1980s are collected in \u003ci\u003eContinuous Project Altered Daily\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNena Tsouti-Schillinger is an art historian and art critic. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eRobert Morris and Angst\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobert Morris (b. 1931) is Distinguished Professor of Art History at Hunter College, The City University of New York. His art has been shown around the world, including in retrospectives at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Deichtorhallen in Hamburg, the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, and the Centro per l'arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci in Prato. He has been widely published in periodicals including \u003ci\u003eArtforum\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCritical Inquiry\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eArt in America\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eOctober\u003c\/i\u003e. His essays from the 1960s through the 1980s are collected in \u003ci\u003eContinuous Project Altered Daily\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNena Tsouti-Schillinger is an art historian and art critic. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eRobert Morris and Angst\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.81 x 9.26 x 6.27 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 14, 2008\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47767069982968,"sku":"9780822342922","price":74.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0698\/5629\/7208\/files\/enYyWU05aDFVTW9zUDdsSWtjanc5Zz09.webp?v=1767901863","url":"https:\/\/barneysbooksellers.com\/products\/have-i-reasons-work-and-writings-1993-2007-paperback","provider":"Barney's Book Sellers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}