© 1975, Robert Morris
Currently not on view
Photo Cabinet,
1975
Robert Morris, American, 1931–2018
2004-43
Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, many artists, including Robert Morris, placed a premium on art that reflects on the nature and character of art-more specifically, on art that renders transparent the activities of making and looking at art. In Morris's hands, this imperative took the form of linguistic puns and visual conundrums, as seen in Photo Cabinet. Here doors seem to lead only to more doors, collapsing the distinction between inside and outside. Paradoxically, the introduction of perceptual confusion was intended to heighten the viewer's awareness-that is, the sense of being fully present before the object.
Information
Title
Photo Cabinet
Dates
1975
Maker
Medium
Painted wood cabinet with photographs
Dimensions
38.1 x 68.5 x 20.0 cm (15 x 26 15/16 x 7 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Kathleen Compton Sherrerd Fund for Acquisitions in American Art
Object Number
2004-43
Place Made
North America, United States
Culture
Type
Materials
Subject
[Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, New York], sold; to Jedermann Inc, Princeton, New Jersey, sold; to Princeton University Art Museum, 2004.
- Robert Morris: the mind/body problem: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Guggenheim Museum Soho, January-April 1994, (New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 1994).
- "Acquisitions of the Princeton University Art Museum 2004," Record of the Princeton University Art Museum 64 (2005): p. 91-135., p. 115
- Princeton University Art Museum: Handbook of the Collections (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 2013), p. 65
- David Hodge, "Why Robert Morris Couldn't Paint Anymore" in In Terms of Painting, eds. Eva Ehninger and Antje Krause-Wahl (Berlin: Revolver Publishing, 2016): 204-219., pp. 204-219 (illus.)
