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Robert Barry

Datum narození: 9. březen 1936

Robert Barry je americký konceptuální umělec.

Citáty Robert Barry

„Ve skutečnosti neničíme objekt, ale jen rozšiřujeme definici.“

Originál: (en) We are not really destroying the object, but just expanding the definition.
Zdroj: [Chilvers, Ian, Glaves-Smith, John R., 2009, Oxford Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Art, Oxford University Press, 77, angličtina, 978-0-19923-965-8]

„My idea of painting was that those yellow squares, being put on the wall as delineating a virtual square or rectangle, were involving the wall itself within the piece and, in this sense, compared to what is usually a work of art, a painting, this piece was somehow reversing the usual terms of the esthetic proposition. Usually, you see the painting and you ignore the wall. Here you had the wall coming through the painting — and the painting itself, the painted pieces, become a standpoint to make the wall appear.“

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— Robert Barry

Robert Barry (1980) in: Alexander Alberro (2003). Conceptual Art and the Politics of Publicity. Alberro noted: "Barry has since discussed the way in which this painting accented the structural support..."

„Nothing seems to me the most potent thing in the world.“

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— Robert Barry

Robert Barry, cited in: Lucy R. Lippard, Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972. New York, Praeger, 1973, p. 40.

„I try to deal with things that maybe other people haven't thought about, emptiness, making a painting that isn't a painting. For years people have been concerned with what goes on inside the frame. Well maybe there is something going on outside the frame that could be considered an artistic idea.“

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— Robert Barry

Robert Barry (1968), cited in: Lucy R. Lippard, Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972. New York, Praeger, 1973, p. 40. p. xii