Stopped Bar Series I, Richard Nonas

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Richard Nonas, Stopped Bar Series I
Richard Nonas, Stopped Bar Series I
Richard Nonas
Stopped Bar Series I
1974
Richard Nonas
born 1936
Stopped Bar Series I, 1974
Where object was made: United States
Material/technique: wood
Dimensions:
Object Height/Width/Length (Height x Width x Length): 7.62 x 3.81 x 137.16 cm
Object Height/Width/Length (Height x Width x Length): 3 x 1 1/2 x 54 in
Credit line: The Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas, The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States, a joint initiative of the Trustees of the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection and the National Gallery of Art, with generous support of the National Endowment for the Arts and the Institute of Museum and Library Services
Accession number: 2009.0061
Not on display
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Exhibition Label: "NetWorks: Art and Artists from the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection," Mar-2011, Susan Earle, Stephen Goddard, and SMA Interns During the 1970s Richard Nonas was a member of the “Anarchitecture” group, along with fellow artists Gordon Matta- Clark and Richard Serra. At that time Nonas was inspired by the first generation of minimalist sculptors and he developed a creative approach that focused on the materiality of wood and metal, and the relation of that materiality to itself and its spatial environment. Reflecting on the simple geometry of his work, Nonas observed in 1973, “It’s the way the piece feels that counts-the way it changes that chunk of space you’re both in, thickens it and makes it vibrate-like nouns slipping into verbs.”

Exhibitions

NetWorks: Art and Artists from the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection
Susan Earle, curator
Stephen Goddard, curator
2011

Citations

Blackledge, Lee, ed., Register. 8, no. 1 (2008-2009): 152.