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“I relied mainly on other artists, who I think are smarter than critics, any critics or curators or anybody like that. They really know.”

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Robert Barry

Robert Barry is an American artist known for his contributions to conceptual art in the 1960s and 1970s. His work often involves exploring the boundaries between art and everyday life. more

“Heidegger wrote a book called Was Ist Das Ding - What Is a Thing? which was kind of interesting and influential to me, as a matter of fact. It's a small paperback, which I read. It's about the nature of thingness; what is it? It's a very penetrating analysis of that, and I think a rather influential book. I know other artists who have read it and come up with it.”

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“The notion of a thing, materiality, was something that I think was something very in peoples' minds when they were dealing with earth and metal and different kinds of metals and the interaction of different sorts of material.”

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