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Robert C. Morgan is an internationally known art critic
Art critic

An art critic is a person who specializes in evaluating art. Their written critiques, or reviews, are published in newspapers, magazines, books and on web sites....
, art historian, curator
Curator

Curator , means manager, Wiktionary:overseer.Traditionally, a curator or keeper of a culture heritage institution is a content specialist responsible for an institution's Collection s and, together with a publications specialist, their associated collections catalogs....
, poet, and visual artist.

rt C. Morgan received his M.F.A. in Sculpture from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 1975 and his Ph.D. in contemporary art history from New York University
New York University

New York University is a private university, nonsectarian, research university in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan....
 in 1978. Professor Morgan has had an extensive academic career. He has taught at New York University, Wichita State University
Wichita State University

Wichita State University is an United States state-supported university located in the city of Wichita, Kansas. WSU is one of six state universities governed by the Kansas Board of Regents....
, the University of Rochester, the School of Visual Arts
School of Visual Arts

The School of Visual Arts , is an art school in Manhattan, New York City and is one of the nation's leading independent colleges of art and design....
, Barnard College
Barnard College

Barnard College is a Women's colleges in the United States Liberal arts colleges in the United States founded in 1889. Barnard is affiliated with Columbia University, but Barnard maintains an independent campus in the Morningside Heights, Manhattan neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan, in New York City, and separate faculty, administrati...
, and Columbia University
Columbia University

Columbia University in the City of New York , is a private university in the United States and a member of the Ivy League. Columbia's main campus lies in the Morningside Heights, Manhattan neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan, in New York City....
. From 1981- 2001, he was Professor of the History and Theory of Art at the Rochester Institute of Technology
Rochester Institute of Technology

The Rochester Institute of Technology is a private university, located in Henrietta, New York, New York, United States, emphasizing undergraduate instruction and career preparation....
. He is currently an Adjunct Professor of Fine Arts in the Graduate School of Fine Arts at Pratt Institute
Pratt Institute

Pratt Institute is a specialized, private college in New York City with campuses in Manhattan and Brooklyn, as well as in Utica, New York. Pratt is one of the leading art schools in the United States and offers programs in art, architecture, fashion design, illustration, interior design, digital arts, creative writing, library science, and o...
 in Brooklyn
Brooklyn

Brooklyn is one of the five Borough of New York City, located at the western end of Long Island. An independent city until its consolidation with New York in 1898, Brooklyn is New York City's most populous borough, with 2.5 million residents, and second largest in area....
, New York. 

Robert Morgan has worked extensively as an independent curator
Curator

Curator , means manager, Wiktionary:overseer.Traditionally, a curator or keeper of a culture heritage institution is a content specialist responsible for an institution's Collection s and, together with a publications specialist, their associated collections catalogs....
. He has organized museum retrospectives of Allan Kaprow
Allan Kaprow

Allan Kaprow was an American painter, Assemblage and a pioneer in establishing the concepts of performance art. He helped to develop the "Installation art" and "Happening" in the late 1950s and 1960s, as well as their theory....
 (1979) and Komar and Melamid
Komar and Melamid

Komar and Melamid is an artistic team made up of Russian graphic artists Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid . In an artists? statement they said that ?Even if only one of us creates some of the projects and works, we usually sign them together....
 (1980), both at the Ulrich Museum of Art in Kansas. In 1990, he curated “Concept -- Decoratif” in conjunction with the Holly Solomon Gallery in New York. From 1989-90, he directed a gallery in SoHo (New York) where he curated a dozen exhibitions of both emerging and established artists, including Carolee Schneemann
Carolee Schneemann

Carolee Schneemann is an United States visual artist, known for her discourses on the body, human sexuality and gender. She received a B.A. from Bard College and an M.F.A....
, Nancy Grossman, Hung Liu, Robert Barry, Douglas Huebler
Douglas Huebler

Douglas Huebler was an United States Conceptual Art.Huebler was initially aligned with the minimalist movement and was included in the seminal 1966 exhibit at the Jewish Museum in New York titled, ""Primary_Structures"." Shortly thereafter, he made the famous statement, ?The world is full of objects, more or less interesting; I do not wish...
, Mel Bochner
Mel Bochner

Mel Bochner is an United States of America conceptual artist. Mr. Bochner received his BFA in 1962 and honorary Doctor of Fine Arts in 2005 from the Carnegie Mellon School of Art at Carnegie Mellon University....
, Muntadas, and Max Ernst
Max Ernst

Max Ernst was a German Painting, sculptor, graphic artist, and poet. A prolific artist, Ernst is considered to be one of the primary pioneers of Dada movement and Surrealism....
. In 1994, he organized “Logo Non Logo“ with French critic Pierre Restany
Pierre Restany

Pierre Restany , was an internationally well known French art critic and cultural philosopher.Restany was born in Am?lie-les-Bains-Palalda and spent his childhood in Casablanca....
 at the Thread Waxing Space in New York, which later traveled to the Art Museum of the University of South Florida in Tampa.

Robert Morgan has authored numerous books, catalogs and monographs on contemporary artists in various countries.






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Robert C. Morgan is an internationally known art critic
Art critic

An art critic is a person who specializes in evaluating art. Their written critiques, or reviews, are published in newspapers, magazines, books and on web sites....
, art historian, curator
Curator

Curator , means manager, Wiktionary:overseer.Traditionally, a curator or keeper of a culture heritage institution is a content specialist responsible for an institution's Collection s and, together with a publications specialist, their associated collections catalogs....
, poet, and visual artist.

Background

Robert C. Morgan received his M.F.A. in Sculpture from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 1975 and his Ph.D. in contemporary art history from New York University
New York University

New York University is a private university, nonsectarian, research university in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan....
 in 1978. Professor Morgan has had an extensive academic career. He has taught at New York University, Wichita State University
Wichita State University

Wichita State University is an United States state-supported university located in the city of Wichita, Kansas. WSU is one of six state universities governed by the Kansas Board of Regents....
, the University of Rochester, the School of Visual Arts
School of Visual Arts

The School of Visual Arts , is an art school in Manhattan, New York City and is one of the nation's leading independent colleges of art and design....
, Barnard College
Barnard College

Barnard College is a Women's colleges in the United States Liberal arts colleges in the United States founded in 1889. Barnard is affiliated with Columbia University, but Barnard maintains an independent campus in the Morningside Heights, Manhattan neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan, in New York City, and separate faculty, administrati...
, and Columbia University
Columbia University

Columbia University in the City of New York , is a private university in the United States and a member of the Ivy League. Columbia's main campus lies in the Morningside Heights, Manhattan neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan, in New York City....
. From 1981- 2001, he was Professor of the History and Theory of Art at the Rochester Institute of Technology
Rochester Institute of Technology

The Rochester Institute of Technology is a private university, located in Henrietta, New York, New York, United States, emphasizing undergraduate instruction and career preparation....
. He is currently an Adjunct Professor of Fine Arts in the Graduate School of Fine Arts at Pratt Institute
Pratt Institute

Pratt Institute is a specialized, private college in New York City with campuses in Manhattan and Brooklyn, as well as in Utica, New York. Pratt is one of the leading art schools in the United States and offers programs in art, architecture, fashion design, illustration, interior design, digital arts, creative writing, library science, and o...
 in Brooklyn
Brooklyn

Brooklyn is one of the five Borough of New York City, located at the western end of Long Island. An independent city until its consolidation with New York in 1898, Brooklyn is New York City's most populous borough, with 2.5 million residents, and second largest in area....
, New York. 

Robert Morgan has worked extensively as an independent curator
Curator

Curator , means manager, Wiktionary:overseer.Traditionally, a curator or keeper of a culture heritage institution is a content specialist responsible for an institution's Collection s and, together with a publications specialist, their associated collections catalogs....
. He has organized museum retrospectives of Allan Kaprow
Allan Kaprow

Allan Kaprow was an American painter, Assemblage and a pioneer in establishing the concepts of performance art. He helped to develop the "Installation art" and "Happening" in the late 1950s and 1960s, as well as their theory....
 (1979) and Komar and Melamid
Komar and Melamid

Komar and Melamid is an artistic team made up of Russian graphic artists Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid . In an artists? statement they said that ?Even if only one of us creates some of the projects and works, we usually sign them together....
 (1980), both at the Ulrich Museum of Art in Kansas. In 1990, he curated “Concept -- Decoratif” in conjunction with the Holly Solomon Gallery in New York. From 1989-90, he directed a gallery in SoHo (New York) where he curated a dozen exhibitions of both emerging and established artists, including Carolee Schneemann
Carolee Schneemann

Carolee Schneemann is an United States visual artist, known for her discourses on the body, human sexuality and gender. She received a B.A. from Bard College and an M.F.A....
, Nancy Grossman, Hung Liu, Robert Barry, Douglas Huebler
Douglas Huebler

Douglas Huebler was an United States Conceptual Art.Huebler was initially aligned with the minimalist movement and was included in the seminal 1966 exhibit at the Jewish Museum in New York titled, ""Primary_Structures"." Shortly thereafter, he made the famous statement, ?The world is full of objects, more or less interesting; I do not wish...
, Mel Bochner
Mel Bochner

Mel Bochner is an United States of America conceptual artist. Mr. Bochner received his BFA in 1962 and honorary Doctor of Fine Arts in 2005 from the Carnegie Mellon School of Art at Carnegie Mellon University....
, Muntadas, and Max Ernst
Max Ernst

Max Ernst was a German Painting, sculptor, graphic artist, and poet. A prolific artist, Ernst is considered to be one of the primary pioneers of Dada movement and Surrealism....
. In 1994, he organized “Logo Non Logo“ with French critic Pierre Restany
Pierre Restany

Pierre Restany , was an internationally well known French art critic and cultural philosopher.Restany was born in Am?lie-les-Bains-Palalda and spent his childhood in Casablanca....
 at the Thread Waxing Space in New York, which later traveled to the Art Museum of the University of South Florida in Tampa.

Robert Morgan has authored numerous books, catalogs and monographs on contemporary artists in various countries. His book on the American conceptualist Robert Barry
Robert Barry

Robert Barry may refer to:*Robert L. Barry, U.S. diplomat*Robert R. Barry , U.S. Representative from New York*Robert Barry *Robert Barry , Scottish Canadian merchant...
 was published by Karl Kerber Press in Bielefeld, Germany (1986). Haim Steinbach was published by the Musee d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux
Bordeaux

is a Port city on the Garonne in southwest France, with one million inhabitants in its aire urbaine at a 2008 estimate. It is the Capital of the Aquitaine regions of France, as well as the Prefectures in France of the Gironde Departments of France....
 (1988). Duchamp, Androgyny, Etc, (on Marcel Duchamp
Marcel Duchamp

Marcel Duchamp was a France artist whose work is most often associated with the Dada and Surrealism movements. Duchamp's output influenced the development of post-World War I Western art....
) was published by Editions Antoine Candau in Paris
Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
 (1990). A Hans Bellmer
Hans Bellmer

Hans Bellmer was an artist best known for the life-sized puberty female dolls he produced in the mid-1930s. Historians of art and photography also consider him a Surrealist photographer....
 Miscellany was published by Baum/Malmburg in Malmo (Sweden) in 1993.

His books published in the United States include Commentaries on the New Media
New media

New media is a term meant to encompass the emergence of digital, computerized, or networked information technology and communication technology technologies in the later part of the 20th century....
 Arts (Umbrella Associates, 1992); After the Deluge: Essays on the Art of the Nineties, (Red Bass Publications, 1993), Conceptual Art
Conceptual art

Conceptual art is art in which the concept or idea involved in the work take precedence over traditional Aesthetics and material concerns. Many of the works, sometimes called Installation art, of the artist Sol LeWitt may be constructed by anyone simply by following a set of written instructions....
: An American Perspective (McFarland, 1994); Art into Ideas: Essays on Conceptual Art (Cambridge University Press, 1996), Between Modernism and Conceptual Art (McFarland, 1997): and The End of the Art World (Allworth Press, 1998). 

His critical anthologies on Gary Hill
Gary Hill

Gary Hill is an American artist who lives and works in Seattle, Washington.One of the pioneers of video art, Gary Hill has exhibited his video and video installations worldwide ....
 (2000) and Bruce Nauman
Bruce Nauman

Bruce Nauman is a contemporary United States artist. His practice spans a broad range of media including sculpture, photography, neon, video, drawing, printmaking, and performance....
 (2002) were published by Johns Hopkins University Press. An edited volume of the late writings by the critic Clement Greenberg
Clement Greenberg

Clement Greenberg was an influential United States art critic closely associated with Modern art in the United States. In particular, he militant critic the Abstract Expressionism movement and was among the first critics to praise the work of painter Jackson Pollock....
 was published by the University of Minnesota Press
University of Minnesota Press

The University of Minnesota Press is a university press that is part of the University of Minnesota.Founded in 1925, the University of Minnesota Press is best known for its books in social and cultural thought, critical theory, race and ethnic studies, urbanism, feminist criticism, and media studies....
, 2003. 

Reference Bibliography


Books


  • Commentaries on the New Media
    New media

    New media is a term meant to encompass the emergence of digital, computerized, or networked information technology and communication technology technologies in the later part of the 20th century....
     Arts Pasadena, CA: Umbrella Associates,1992


  • After the Deluge: Essays for Art in the Nineties. New York: Red Bass,1993


  • Conceptual Art
    Conceptual art

    Conceptual art is art in which the concept or idea involved in the work take precedence over traditional Aesthetics and material concerns. Many of the works, sometimes called Installation art, of the artist Sol LeWitt may be constructed by anyone simply by following a set of written instructions....
    : An American Perspective. Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland, 1994. Introduction by Michael Kirby
    Michael Kirby

    Michael Donald Kirby, Order of Australia, Order of St Michael and St George is a former Justice of the High Court of Australia, serving from 1996 to 2009....


  • Art Into Ideas: Essays on Conceptual Art
    Conceptual art

    Conceptual art is art in which the concept or idea involved in the work take precedence over traditional Aesthetics and material concerns. Many of the works, sometimes called Installation art, of the artist Sol LeWitt may be constructed by anyone simply by following a set of written instructions....
    . London:Cambridge University Press, 1996


  • Between Modernism
    Modernism

    Modernism, in its broadest definition, is modern thought, character, or practice. More specifically, the term describes both a set of cultural tendencies and an array of associated cultural movements, originally arising from wide-scale and far-reaching changes to Western culture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century....
     and Conceptual Art
    Conceptual art

    Conceptual art is art in which the concept or idea involved in the work take precedence over traditional Aesthetics and material concerns. Many of the works, sometimes called Installation art, of the artist Sol LeWitt may be constructed by anyone simply by following a set of written instructions....
    . Jefferson, North Carolina and London: McFarland, 1997


  • The End of the Art World New York: Allworth Press (in collaboration with the School of Visual Arts
    School of Visual Arts

    The School of Visual Arts , is an art school in Manhattan, New York City and is one of the nation's leading independent colleges of art and design....
    ), 1998. Introduction by Bill Beckley


  • Gary Hill
    Gary Hill

    Gary Hill is an American artist who lives and works in Seattle, Washington.One of the pioneers of video art, Gary Hill has exhibited his video and video installations worldwide ....
    , editor. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000


  • Bruce Nauman
    Bruce Nauman

    Bruce Nauman is a contemporary United States artist. His practice spans a broad range of media including sculpture, photography, neon, video, drawing, printmaking, and performance....
    , editor. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002


  • Clement Greenberg
    Clement Greenberg

    Clement Greenberg was an influential United States art critic closely associated with Modern art in the United States. In particular, he militant critic the Abstract Expressionism movement and was among the first critics to praise the work of painter Jackson Pollock....
    : Late Writings, editor. University of Minnesota Press. 2003


  • Vasarely. New York: George Braziller, 2004


  • Wild Dogs in Bali: The Art of Made Wianta. Singapore: SNP Editions, 2005


Selected Anthologies and Monographs


  • "Asparagus and Chrysanthemums = Sentimentality and Power," in Muntadas and D'Agostino, eds., The Un/Necessary Image, New York: Tanam Press and Cambridge, Committee on the Visual Arts, MIT, 1983


  • "The Delta of Modernism" Re-Dact, Edited by Peter Frank. New York: Willis, Locker, and Owens, 1984. Revised and reprinted in Kostelanetz, ed., Esthetics Contemporary, 2nd Edition, (Buffalo, New York: Prometheus Books, 1989 ( Spanish Translation appeared in Revista Esthetica (CAYC, Buenos Aires), Fall 1991. Revised in The End of the Art World, New York: Allworth Press, 1998.


  • "Systemic Books by Artists" in Joan Lyons, ed., Artists' Books: A Critical Anthology and Sourcebook, Peregrine Smith Books and Visual Studies Workshop Press, Rochester, N.Y., 1985.


  • Haim Steinbach: Monograph of an Exhibition, Bordeaux: capc Musee d'art contemporain,1990 (French)


  • Joseph Nechvatal
    Joseph Nechvatal

    Joseph Nechvatal is a post-conceptual art digital artist and Aesthetics who creates computer-assisted paintings and computer animations, often using custom-created computer viruses....
    : Laminations of the Soul     in Joseph Nechvatal
    Joseph Nechvatal

    Joseph Nechvatal is a post-conceptual art digital artist and Aesthetics who creates computer-assisted paintings and computer animations, often using custom-created computer viruses....
    . Paris: Antoine Candau Editions, 1990 (English and French)


  • "La Situacion del Arte Conceptual Desde "January Show" Hasta Nuestros Dias" in Juan Vicente Aliaga and Jose Miguel Cortes, editors, Arte Conceptual Revisado, Universidad Poletechnica de Valencia, 1990 (Spanish and English


  • "Entretien avec Robert C. Morgan" en Richard Serra
    Richard Serra

    Richard Serra is an United States minimalism sculpture and video artist known for working with large scale assemblies of sheet metal. Serra was involved in the Process Art Movement....
    : Ecrits et Entretiens, 1970-89 (Daniel Lelong Editeur, 1990). English Edition, Chicago University Press, 1993


  • Colin Naylor, ed .Contemporary Masterworks (London: St. James Press,1992) Entries include critical discussions of works by Isamu Noguchi
    Isamu Noguchi

    was a prominent Japanese American artist and landscape architecture whose artistic career spanned six decades, from the 1920s onward. Known for his sculpture and public works, Noguchi also designed stage sets for various Martha Graham productions, and several mass-produced lamps and furniture pieces, some of which are still manufactured and sold....
    , Gordon Bunschaft, and Josep Renau.


  • Oscar de Mejo:The Naive Surrealist, Essay by Robert C. Morgan. New York: Abrams, 1992       


  • Marcel Delmotte. Essay by Robert C. Morgan. Nahan Galleries (in collaboration with Galerie Isy Brachot, Bruxelles), 1991


  • "The Miralda Honeymoon Celebration in Las Vegas", Nevada State Council on the Arts, 1992


  • "Hans Bellmer
    Hans Bellmer

    Hans Bellmer was an artist best known for the life-sized puberty female dolls he produced in the mid-1930s. Historians of art and photography also consider him a Surrealist photographer....
    :The Infestation of Eros" in A Hans Bellmer Miscellany, Anders Malmburg, Malmo and Timothy Baum, New York, 1993


  • "Dorothea Tanning
    Dorothea Tanning

    Dorothea Tanning is an United States painter, printmaker, sculptor and writer. She has also designed sets and costumes for ballet and theatre....
    's Sculptural Interlude" in Dorothea Tanning (New York: George Braziller, 1995)


  • "Philip Glass
    Philip Glass

    Philip Glass is an American music composer. He is considered one of the most influential composers of the late-20th century and is widely acknowledged as a composer who has brought art music to the public ....
    : The Photographer" (1984, revised 1996), Writings on Glass: Essays, Interviews, Criticism. Edited by Richard Kostelanetz
    Richard Kostelanetz

    Richard Kostelanetz is a prolific American artist, author and critic.He was born to Boris Kostelanetz and Ethel Cory and is the nephew of the composer Andre Kostelanetz....
     and Robert Flemming. (New York: Schirmer Books, 1997)


  • "The Language of Eros" in Noritoshi Hirakawa, Matters, 1988-1997. New York: Deitch Projects and Antwerp: Zeno X Gallery, 1998


  • "A Sign of Beauty" in Bill Beckley and David Shapiro
    David Shapiro

    David Shapiro may refer to:*David Shapiro *David Shapiro *Dr. Cat...
    , Uncontrollable Beauty. New York: Allworth Press, 1998.


  • "Touch Sanitation: Mierle Laderman Ukeles" in Linda Frye Burnham and Steven Durland, editors. The Citizen Artist: 20 Years of Art in the Public Arena. Critical Press. The Gunk Foundation, 1998


  • "The End of the Art World" (excerpt) in Patricia Hills, Modern Art in the USA: Issues and Controversies of the 20th Centuries" Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2000


See also

  • Conceptual art
    Conceptual art

    Conceptual art is art in which the concept or idea involved in the work take precedence over traditional Aesthetics and material concerns. Many of the works, sometimes called Installation art, of the artist Sol LeWitt may be constructed by anyone simply by following a set of written instructions....
  • Institutional Critique
    Institutional Critique

    Institutional Critique is an art term that describes the systematic inquiry into the workings of art institutions, for instance galleries and museums, and is most associated with the work of artists such as Michael Asher , Marcel Broodthaers, Daniel Buren, Andrea Fraser, Fred Wilson and Hans Haacke....
  • Postmodern art
    Postmodern art

    Postmodern art is a term used to describe an art movement which was thought to be in contradiction to some aspect of modernism, or to have emerged or developed in its aftermath....
  • Computer art
    Computer art

    Computer art is any art in which computers played a role in production or display of the artwork. Such art can be an image, sound, animation, video, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, videogame, web site, algorithm, performance or gallery installation....
  • Electronic art
    Electronic art

    Electronic art is a form of art that makes use of electronic media or, more broadly, refers to technology and/or electronic media. It is related to information art, new media art, video art, digital art, interactive art, internet art, and electronic music....
  • Systems art
    Systems art

    Systems art is art influenced by systems theory, which reflects on natural systems, social systems and social signs of the art world itself. Systems art emerged as part of the first wave of the conceptual art movement extended in the 1960s and 1970s....
  • New Media Art
    New media art

    New media art is an art genre that encompasses artworks created with new media technology, including digital art, computer graphics, computer animation, virtual art, Internet art, interactive art technologies, computer robotics, and art as biotechnology....
  • Generative art
    Generative art

    Generative art refers to art that has been generated, composed, or constructed in an algorithmic manner through the use of systems defined by computer software algorithms, or similar mathematical or mechanical or randomised autonomous processes....


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