A Minimal Future?: Art as Object 1958-1968
As a new movement that arose in the 1950s and 1960s, Minimalism challenged traditional ideas about art-making and the art object. A Minimal Future? Art As Object 1958-1968,which accompanies a major exhibition at The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, offers a redefinition of Minimalism by situating it in the context of the concurrent aesthetics of modernist abstraction, pop art, and nascent ideas of conceptual art. Minimalism is presented as a range of strategies that propelled new...
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How Minimalism redefined the art object, featuring work by key artists and a reexamination of Minimalism by prominent art historians, critics, and scholars.
Foreword6Acknowledgments11Introduction : a minimal future?1710 structurists in 20 paragraphs25Another minimalism33Allegories of boredom51From minimal origins to conceptual originality77More or less minimalism : six notes on performance and visual art in the 1960s103The primary : political and anti-political continuities between minimal music and minimal art111Artists in the exhibition133General bibliography369Chronology of group exhibitions and reviews382Artists' selected bibliographies and exhibitions401Checklist of the exhibition445
\ From the Publisher"The landmark exhibition...advertises itself as the first big American retrospective of the Minimal movement since the 1960's. Six years in the making, it's a stimulating beauty, which might even change a few minds." Michael Kimmelman New York Times\ \
