Golden memories - interview with scupltor Robert Morris - Interview

ArtForum, April, 1994 by W.J.T. Mitchell

WJTM: Let's close where we started, with "fame"--but this time fame in the classical sense, as distinct from the modern celebrity of mass culture. Of course you're right that fame is one of the things we grasp at in the face of death. But for an artist (an artist not as some reified oracle, but as someone who wants to make art), is it "just one of those answers"? Don't answer this yet. I haven't got the question right.

RM: Fame. Here is an unanswering answer as an unanswerable question: What could I say about fame, since "Robert Morris" is somebody else?