... up suggestive precedents in the history of modern American sculpture for Stella's break from flat painting to ever more complexly layered reliefs and sculpture. His work often surprisingly resembles Herbert Ferber's wall reliefs of the 1950s.22 However, when all is said and done, the spirit of Stella's new work recalls the kind of epic forces of mind and matter for ... with stripes on it, that's all there was to it. He produced works that were visually stimulating and did not necessarily challenge the mind to travel into the depths of analysis in order to break down the work into ration...

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