Conceptual Art 1962-1969: From the Aesthetic of Administration to ...

Sol LeWitt. Untitled (Red Square, White Letters).1962.you see is what you see" would attest to that just as much as the development ofhis later work),15 Sol LeWitt's dialogue (with both Johns and Stella, and ulti-12. Stella's famous statement was of course made in the conversation between Bruce Glaser,Donald Judd, and himself, in February 1964, and published in Art Nnus (September 1966), pp.55-61. To what extent the problem of this dilemma haunted the generation of Minimal artistsbecomes evident when almost ten years later, in an interview with Jack Burnham, Robert Morriswould still seem to be responding (if perhaps unconsciously) to Stella's notorious statement:Painting ceased to interest me. There were certain things about it that seemed veryproblematic to me. . . . There was a big conflict between the fact of doing this thing,and what it looked like later. It just didn't seem to make much sense to me. Primarily