Rosalind Fried's Cloud Gate

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Cloud Gate’s qualities of “presentness” as lamented by Fried functions as a precursor that introduces elements of site and duration typically suited to an outdoor context or public realm. Rosalind Krauss notes that sculptors working in the minimalist idiom did so as they “had no faith in the ideals classical sculpture as founded on, and the only means by which they could explore the medium’s possibilities were to introduce the situational elements of placement and temporal duration” . Such a readjustment of perspective enables minimalist sculpture such as Cloud Gate to derive meaning from different sources. Instead of “emanating from the work itself, meaning now had an opportunity to arise from….the space in general” . Such an experience of

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