Minimal Art

By: Battcock, Gregory

Book Overview

Here with a new introduction and updated bibliography, is the definitive collection of writings by and about the work of the 1960s minimalists, generously illustrated with photographs of paintings, sculpture, and performance.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0525472118
• ISBN13: 9780525472117
• Release Date: April 1968
• Publisher: E. P. Dutton
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.0" x 1.0" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

Groundbreaking anthology that became a classic....

Exceptionally important critical anthology of early writings on Minimal and Conceptual Art. This 454 pages illuminating volume includes essays by Gregory Battcock (the volume's editor) and texts by a garden variety of art historians, critics and curators: Lawrence Alloway (Systemic Painting), Michael Benedikt (Sculpture as Architecture), Mel Bochner (Serial Art, Systems, Solipsism), David Bourdon (The Razed Sites of Carl Andre), Nicolas Calas (Subject Matter in the Work of Barnett Newman), Michael Fried (Art and Objecthood), Bruce Glaser (Questions to Frank Stella and Donald Judd), E.C. Goossen (Two Exhibitions), Clement Greenberg (Recentness of Sculpture), Peter Hutchinson (Mannerism in the Abstract), David Lee (A Systematic Revery from Abstraction to Now), Allen Leepa (Minimal ARt and Primary Meanings), Lucy R. Lippard (Eros Presumptive), Robert Morris (Notes on Sculpture), Toby Mussman (Literalness and the Infinitte), Brian O. Doherty (Minus Plato), John Perreault (Minimal Abstracts), Yvonne Rainer (A Quasi Survey of Some "Minimalist" Tendencies in the Quantitatively Minimal Dance Activity Midst the Plethora, or an Analysis of Trio A), Barbara Rose (A B C Art), Harold Rosenberg (Defining Art), Irving Sandler (Gesture and Non-Gesture in Recent Sculpture), Willoughby Sharp (Luminism and Kineticism), Elayne Varian (Schemata 7), Samuel Wagstaff Jr. (Talking with Tony Smith), Richard Wollheim (Minimal Art), and writings by artists Martial Raysse, Dan Flavin, Robert Smithson.