Andrew Leslie | positions
Taking a position: visuality and sensation in the work of Andrew Leslie
Carolyn Barnes
Melbourne 2008
In 1967, Sol Le Witt dismissed the role of the visual in art by claiming ‘what the work of art looks like isn’t too important’. The statement’s source text, ‘Paragraphs on Conceptual Art’, drew a line between the tradition of art works that appealed to the eye and a growing body of art critical art directed to the mind. Charles Harrison argues this stark philosophical divide prompted minimal and conceptual artists...
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