MINIMALISM

Minimalism is one of the key movements in post-war art. Having emerged in America in the 1960s, it has had an enormous influence on artists, designers, architects, musicians and others, from its inception to the present day. The work of the artists most associated with Minimalism, Carl Andre, Dan Flavin, Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt and Robert Morris, bears certain hallmarks: it is three-dimensional, serial, factory-produced (or looks that way), and is often modular. While perhaps best exemplified through its objects, the paintings of artists such as Frank Stella, Robert Ryman, Robert Mangold, Agnes Martin and Brice Marden also use the forms of Minimalism. Critic and art historian James Meyer, a leading authority on Minimalism, examines it from inception to its broader cultural influence. The excellent selection of images illustrate the surprising variety in the work, and also relate it to other artists such as Eva Hesse and Robert Smithson. Including seminal texts, previously unpublished material and documents from little-known or out-of-print catalogues, this is the most comprehensive sourcebook available on this fundamental moment in twentieth-century art history.