anti-form

A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art | 1999 | 549 words | Copyright

anti-form. An imprecise term, originating in the late 1960s, applied to certain types of works that react against traditional forms, materials, and methods of artistic creation—Arte Povera, Land art, some kinds of Conceptual art, and the early ‘provisional, non-fixed, elastic’ sculptures of Richard Serra, for example. Robert Morris, who wrote an article entitled ‘Anti-Form’ in the April 1968 issue of Artforum, defined the term—somewhat opaquely—as an ‘attempt to contradict one's taste'.

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