Minimalism : art and polemics in the sixties / James Meyer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Meyer, James Sampson, author.

Contributor:

Yale University Press, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art, American--20th century.

Art, American.

Minimal art--United States.

Minimal art.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 340 pages) : 175 illustrations (some color), plans

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2001]

Summary:

"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"--Publisher's description.

Contents:

A minimal field

Minimal polemics

Spring 1966

A tour of "Primary Structures"

1959-1962

The early years

1963

The emergence of Judd and Morris

Truitt at Andre Emmerich

1964

Introduction to the "minimal" 1: "Black, White, and Gray"

Introduction to the "Minimal" 2: "Everyman's Infinite Art"; Di Suvero's Attack

Introduction to the "minimal" 3: the art student's doubt

Flavin, Judd, and Stella interviewed

Enter Flavin; "Eleven Artists"

"8 Young Artists"

Morris's plywood show

1965

"Shape and Structure: 1965": the fight for Stella's "Soul"

Andre's styrofoam show: Sculpture-as-Place

"Specific Objects"

"Minimal Art" and "ABC Art": popularization of the "minimal"

1966

Morris's "Notes on Sculpture"

The serial attitude: Judd at Castelli, "Systemic Painting," and the Finch Shows

Seriality as negation

Andre's brick show

LeWitt at the Dwan Gallery: displacement into conceptualism

1967: The Critiques of Greenberg and Fried

"Recentness of Sculpture": minimalism and "Good Design"

The case for Truitt: minimalism and gender

The aesthetics of doubt: "Art and Objecthood"

1968: Canonization/Critique

Judd's Whitney show and Battcock's anthology

"The Art of the Real: USA 1948-1968" and the reception abroad

"Minimal Art," "Anti Form," and the social critique of minimalism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-326) and index.

Description based on print version record and online resource (A&AePortal, viewed on December 1, 2023).

ISBN:

9780300277074

0300277075

OCLC:

1150852504