Leta Hollingworth, the great psychologist who wrote two seminal books (Hollingworth, 1926: Hollingworth, 1942) on gifted education, as well as many
articles and chapters in edited books, and who conducted a highly
influential study on profoundly gifted children (children of IQ 180 +) experienced this emotional intensity from an
early age.
Through an
influential series of
articles that began to appear, irregularly, in the New York art press c. 1966, Morris assumed a highly visible position in determining both the objectives and the tenor of Minimalism in America, then in its
early stages.