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In the post-war period, the French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty theorized the intertwining of the perceiving subject and the perceived object. According to him, embodied - as in: completely sensory and not just visual - experience is essential to know and understand the world. His ideas had a strong influence on Minimalist artists as well as their critics in the 1960s. The radical, often geometric, simplicity of Minimalist artworks requires the presence of visitors: their perception of the work in the space and their awareness of the ways in which they perceive it. Precisely because of …