Some names - Robert Morris (modules), Dan Flavin (light), Donald Judd (painted metal cubes), Sol LeWitt (open modular cubes),Carl Andre (the infamous bricks)."When Carl Andre was asked in an interview in 1996 how he saw sculpture being taken forward, he replied: 'Perhaps I am the bones and the body of sculpture and perhaps Richard Serra is the muscle, but Eva Hesse is the brain and the nervous system extending far into the future'. It is a remarkable tribute to an artist who died in her early thirties, some two decades earlier, but Andre was not alone of his generation in his estimation of Hesse's importance..."
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