| Minimalism Contributor(s): Meyer, James (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0714856533 ISBN-13: 9780714856537 Publisher: Phaidon Press OUR PRICE: $22.46 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | History - Contemporary (1945- ) |
| Dewey: 709.730 |
| LCCN: 2011286509 |
| Physical Information: 0.61" H x 9.84" W x 11.36" (2.26 lbs) 199 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Minimalism offers the first straightforward and useful summary of the output and outlook of the artists associated with minimalism in its heyday, as well as its subsequent development into more nuanced visual forms and its relationship to postmodernism. Editor James Meyer is a specialist who has written extensively on Carl Andre, Donald Judd, Dan Flavin, and Sol LeWitt, four of the seminal minimalists (the fifth is Robert Morris). Despite the intellectual thorniness of this art, Meyer avoids the turgidity that marks much of the writing associated with it. Tracing the origins of minimalism primarily to Frank Stella's Black Paintings of 1959, Meyer outlines the shifting, often warring definitions of this new kind of art. Once sculptors Andre and Judd had made their mark, there was doubt that painters could be minimalists. Brice Marden and Robert Ryman made the cut because their work was believed to be purely about the process of painting. Interestingly, although this was overwhelmingly a male club, curators also initially embraced the work of several women artists (including Agnes Martin and Anne Truitt) who retained such minimalist no-noes as irregular, handmade marks, color that could be perceived independently of form, and a belief in transcendent meaning. |