James Meyer
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.
Edward Strickland
The term Minimalism appeared in the mid-1960s, primarily with reference to the stripped-down sculpture of artists like Robert Morris and Donald Judd, both of whom detested the word. In the late seventies it gained widespread currency when applied to the repetitive music popularized by Steve Reich and Philip Glass.
Kenneth Baker
Examines how the Minimalists removed illusion and habits of perception from their art, essential starting with nothing, and forced viewers to do the same. Illustrated with works ranging from small-scale sculpture to massive earthworks, the text traces the trends Minimalism succeeded and preceded.
Lynn Zelevansky
Catalog for exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, June 16- September 11, 1994. This exhibition represents one of many possible takes on women and the Post-Minimalist legacy. Its conception and realization greatly depend on the efforts of numerous artists who, over the last twenty-five years, have forged significant changes within the art world. The show included works from Polly Apfelbaum, Mona Hatoum, Rachel Lachowicz, Jac Leirner. Claudia Matzko, Rachel Whitehead; and, Andrea Zittell.
Jed Perl
In the quarter century after the end of World War II, a new generation of painters, sculptors, and photographers transformed the face of American art and shifted the center of the art world from Paris to New York. Signaled by the triumph of abstraction and the ascendancy of painters such as Pollock, Rothko, de Kooning, and Kline, this revolution generated an exuberant and contentious body of writing without parallel in our cultural history.
John Keenen, Joan Pachner, Robert Storr
Tony Smith is primarily known as a sculptor of large abstract constructions, which he made during the last 20 years of his life. Less well known is the fact that he was also an architect and a painter–a true Renaissance man. In the mid-1930s he studied drawing, painting, and anatomy at the Arts Student League in New York, later moving to Chicago, where he took courses in architecture and design at the New Bauhaus. Subsequent work with Frank Lloyd Wright led him to establish his own architectural firm in the 40s. Becoming disheartened with the role of architect, he returned to painting, and in the late 50s found his ultimate calling in sculpture.
Renate Wiehager
First published in 2006, and soon out of print, Minimalism and After is a now classic presentation of Minimalist and Postminimalist tendencies from the 1960s to the present day. The images in this hefty volume track some of Minimalism’s major contributions: the essentially sculptural presence of the picture-object, coolly geometrical structures, works presented so that they relate to the space and the viewer, and a rejection of symbolic or narrative material.
Manuel Fontán del Junco
The first retrospective in 30 years on the immensely influential abstractionist, theorist, art-world scourge and forefather of Minimalism
The first monographic exhibition on the artist in Spain and one of the most complete surveys ever curated in Europe, Art Is Art and Everything Else Is Everything Else illustrates Ad Reinhardt’s tremendous influence on Abstract Expressionism as well as subsequent contemporary art styles. Reinhardt’s paintings are rarely representational and are instead composed of geometrics and eventually only color: canvases of all red, all blue, all black.
Frances Colpitt
In this important work, Frances Colpitt chronicles the Minimal art movement of the 1960s. Maintaining the original spirit of the period―enthusiasm for innovation and a passionate commitment to intellectual inquiry―Colpitt provides an excellent documentary history that is both thorough and nonpartisan.
Jonathan Flatley
How Minimalism redefined the art object, featuring work by key artists and a reexamination of Minimalism by prominent art historians, critics, and scholars.