Minimalism: Art and Polemics in the Sixties

by James Meyer

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300105908
• ISBN13: 9780300105902
• Release Date: August 2004
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 2.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.7" x 10.1"