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Minimalism: Art and Polemics in the Sixties
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Minimalism: Art and Polemics in the Sixties Paperback - 2004

by James Meyer

Critic and art historian Meyer, a leading authority on Minimalism, examines the style from its inception to its broader cultural influence. This sourcebook features an excellent selection of nearly 300 color and b&w images to illustrate the surprising variety of the work.


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What is minimalism? The answer to this simple question has defied simple answers. In this highly readable history of minimalist art James Meyer argues that minimalism was not a coherent movement but a field of overlapping and sometimes opposed practices. He traces in comprehensive detail the emergence of six figures associated with the development--Carl Andre, Dan Flavin, Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt, Robert Morris, and Anne Truitt--and how the notion of minimalism came to be constructed around their art in the 1960s. Despite distinctive differences in method and points of view, Meyer shows, these artists became equated in a series of important exhibitions and texts that led to their designation as minimalists. Beginning with the first reviews of minimalist shows, the book tracks the development of an art that critics dubbed Cool Art, ABC Art, and Primary Structures before settling on the deprecating label minimal art." Suggesting that such work was overly reduced in form and facture, this term implied that the new abstraction was barely legible as fine art to some viewers. Meyer describes the heated polemic that unfolded in response to these practices, the differing claims of the artists, and the sometimes intense rivalries that developed within a highly competitive, fashion-minded New York art scene. The book culminates with an analysis of minimalism's canonization in the late sixties, its reception in Europe, and its discrediting by leftist viewers who associated the new art with American capitalist-imperialism of the Vietnam War.

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  • Title Minimalism: Art and Polemics in the Sixties
  • Author James Meyer
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Second Printing
  • Pages 340
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Yale University Press, New Haven
  • Date August 11, 2004
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780300105902 / 0300105908
  • Weight 2.52 lbs (1.14 kg)
  • Dimensions 10.08 x 7.68 x 0.91 in (25.60 x 19.51 x 2.31 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1960's
  • Library of Congress subjects Art, American - 20th century, Minimal art - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00043972
  • Dewey Decimal Code 709.73

About the author

James Meyer is Curator in the Department of Modern Art at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
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