Focus on this artwork and explore the Reception.
This Piece Has No Title Yet has been hailed by several critics as a landmark work of conceptual and postminimalist art. Writing in Artforum, critic Jeffrey Kastner called the sculpture "show-stopping" and "a real-life experience a hundred times more potent than any postgrad seminar on the artifactual narratives of American abjection." Upon seeing the sculpture for the first time, former San Francisco Museum of Modern Art curator John Caldwell called the piece "jaw-dropping."Discussing the beer can motif in the work, critic Lane Relyea wrote that Noland presents "an image of overwhelming intoxication and, at the same time, incredible waste, the whole mighty edifice destined to be chugged and pissed away; and, behind that, another image, that of the eroded canyons of the American West."Conversely, writing in 1991, critic Arthur Danto described the piece as an "intolerable and patronizing exercise," further negatively describing the work - and its gallery companions in the 1991 Whitney Biennial - as having a "mood of aggressiveness."
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