Untitled
1968
ink
paper
From the collection of Museum of Modern Art
1968
ink
paper
From the collection of Museum of Modern Art
Untitled is a 1968 ink by Adrian Piper, depicting Writing, held at Museum of Modern Art.
You see a small square of graph paper taped to foam board, with black ink lines and numbers written in neat handwriting. Next to it is a typed page explaining the exact size of the square. Piper made this when she was only 19, using math and words to turn a simple shape into art. The work feels like a quiet challenge—what counts as art, and who gets to decide? To see more works that ask the same question, look up Adrian Piper.
Adrian Margaret Smith Piper is an American conceptual artist and Kantian philosopher.
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