Robert Morris
Robert Morris
Minimalist sculptor and conceptual artist who created works of performance and installation art. Known for the body-art poster of himself from 1974 and "Untitled" from 1967 and 1986.
ProfessionSculptor
Date of Birth9 February 1931
CityKansas City, MO
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So many of the sounds that contemporary composers were trying to create were to be found in the traditional musics of the world. That was encouraging but also little daunting to think that you had to work so hard to be new and yet it was old.
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