Chris Purdie

Oct 26, 2024 | scholarsarchive.byu.edu | Chris Purdie |Brian Christensen |Brigham Young

KeywordsThe Speakers, voice box, black speakers, sculpture, artCollegeFine Arts and CommunicationsAbstractThe Speakers (Voice Box) is a six-foot cube made of two hundred-twelve black speakers. The point of departure for this sculpture is found in an art historical dialog between Minimalist art and the criticism of Michael Fried. In this piece I examined the phenomenology of perception as it applied to Minimalist artist Tony Smith’s sculptures—specifically Die, a six foot steel cube.