Art Criticism and Perceptual Research Author(s): Cindy Nemser Source: Art Journal, Vol. 29, No. 3 (Spring, 1970), pp. 326-329 Published by: College Art Association Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/775461 . Accessed: 29/09/2011 09:56 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact
[email protected]. College Art Association is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Art Journal. http://www.jstor.org Art Criticismand Perceptual Research Cindy Nemser Rebellion in the ranks of the perceptual lieves that the originality of Morris Louis's For Robert Morris, gestalt theory has psychologists of the 1950's is finally having veil paintings consists, above all, in the "re- played an essential role in the meaning he its repercussions in the art world. New per- markable rich and varied internal articula- wished his works to convey. In his "Notes on ceptual theories, based on Dewey's Transac- tion of what is experienced as a single com- Sculpture," Morris says that constancy of tionalism and the more recent experiments of prehensive configuration."5 He finds the flor- shape is to be obtained by the use of polyhe- Franklin Kilpatrick and F.H.