Minimalism: Art of Circumstance (Abbeville Modern Art Movements)
By Kenneth Baker.
Description
Beginning in the 1960s, artists like Frank Stella, Donald Judd, Carl Andre, Dan Flavin, Sol LeWitt, Robert Morris, Robert Smithson, Walter De Maria, Richard Serra, Keith Sonnier, Eva Hesse, Robert Grosvenor, and Joel Shapiro reacted against what they saw as the flamboyance of Abstract Expressionism, seeking instead materials, forms, and procedures that explicitly do not convey the personal touch of the fabricator. Many observers have judged the artworks that resulted obstinately cerebral and unapproachable - or, worse, barren beyond the point of tedium.Others have recognized that these work...
ISBN(s)
089659887X, 9780896598874
