Minimalism

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Un ouvrage reconnu dans le monde entier comme l'étude la plus complète et la plus sérieuse parue sur le minimalisme. Présente une analyse détaillée de l'oeuvre de chaque créateur : les 5 minimalistes les plus célèbres (Carl Andre, Dan Flavin, Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt et Robert Morris), mais aussi des artistes assimilés à ce mouvement tels que Robert Mangold, Agnes Martin, Frank Stella ou Anne Truitt. Le minimalisme, mouvement artistique majeur de l'après-guerre, est présent dans de grandes collections publiques du monde entier. Il exerce toujours une grande influence sur l'art, l'architecture et la design contemporains.

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 Including seminal texts, previously unpublished material and documents from little-known or out-of-print catalogues, this is the most comprehensive sourcebook available on this fundamental moment in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.

James Meyer is a writer and art historian who has been teaching contemporary art and critical theory at Emory University in Atlanta since 1994. He is a noted specialist and lecturer in Minimal art, American art of the 1960s and contemporary forms of institutional critique. Meyer has written extensively on the Minimal artists, including publications on Carl Andre, Donald Judd, Dan Flavin, Sol LeWitt and Jo Baer his recent exhibition catalogues have focused on Mel Bouchner and Ellsworth Kelly, as well as Mark Dion, Christian Philipp Mller, Andrea Fraser and Rene Green. His publications include `The Writing of Art and Objecthood in Refracting Vision: A Critical Anthology on the Writings of Michael Fried` (Power Institute of Fine Arts, University of Sydney, 2000) and `Minimalism: Art and Polemics in the Sixties` (Yale University Press, 2001).