Minimal conditions : light, space, and subjectivity / Dawna L. Schuld.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schuld, Dawna L., 1964- author.

Contributor:

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Irwin, Robert, 1928-2023.

Minimal art.

Criticism and interpretation.

California--Los Angeles.

Irwin, Robert, 1928-2023--Criticism and interpretation.

Irwin, Robert.

Minimal art--California--Los Angeles--20th century.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xvi, 145 pages, 21 pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]

Summary:

"Minimal Conditions explores the expansion of sculpture into phenomenal and perception-based practices in and around the Los Angeles area in the 1970s, establishing a key role for California Light and Space art in the evolution of minimal art toward dematerialization. Taking into consideration the contingent and embodied nature of this work, the book proposes and demonstrates a method of analysis that considers these works not as discrete objects, but as diverse species of experience"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Preface : Situating ourselves

Acknowledgments

Introduction : the conscious medium and the phenomenal minimal

Robert Irwin and the presence of the situation : from post-painterly to post-object

In a fog : light, space, obfuscation, and emergence

Cave dwelling : resolution and dissolution

Being nowhere : desert situations

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 107-135) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780520294509

0520294505

OCLC:

1004424873