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