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Minimal Art
A Critical Anthology
By Gregory Battcock (Edited by), Anne M. Wagner (Introduction by), Anne M. Wagner

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United States, 3 August 1995

"So perspicuous was Battcock's choice of articles in "Minimal Art that his book has proved to be an exceptionally telling index of the critical discourse of its time. This is the key primary source book--for that matter it remains the key book--on the subject of Minimal Art, a movement that has lately, newly become a topic of consuming interest to many modern art historians, critics, curators and artists."--Anna C. Chave, author of "Mark Rothko: Subjects in Abstraction

"Good criticism of contemporary art movements is both rare and scattered, and readers with access to a wide range of periodicals and catalogue introductions are few. . . Minimal Art is so obviously the most important movement of the 1960s, and equally certainly will continue to be so in the early 1970s, that this anthology will be a valuable compilation of statements by artists and assessments by critics."--David Irwin, "Apollo


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"So perspicuous was Battcock's choice of articles in "Minimal Art that his book has proved to be an exceptionally telling index of the critical discourse of its time. This is the key primary source book--for that matter it remains the key book--on the subject of Minimal Art, a movement that has lately, newly become a topic of consuming interest to many modern art historians, critics, curators and artists."--Anna C. Chave, author of "Mark Rothko: Subjects in Abstraction

"Good criticism of contemporary art movements is both rare and scattered, and readers with access to a wide range of periodicals and catalogue introductions are few. . . Minimal Art is so obviously the most important movement of the 1960s, and equally certainly will continue to be so in the early 1970s, that this anthology will be a valuable compilation of statements by artists and assessments by critics."--David Irwin, "Apollo

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9780520201477
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0520201477
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20.4 x 14.4 x 3.1 centimetres (0.62 kg)

Table of Contents

Anne M. Wagner: Reading Minimal Art
Preface
Lawrence Alloway: Systemic Painting
Michael Benedikt: Sculpture as Architecture: New York Letter,
1966-67
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 Stella and Judd
E. C. Goossen: Two Exhibitions
Dan Graham: Photographs
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 Infinite
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
Martial Raysse, Dan Flavin, Robert Smithson: Writings
Bibliography (compiled by Alicja T. Egbert)
Index

About the Author

Gregory Battcock was a painter, lecturer in art history and criticism, and editor of The New Art: A Critical Anthology and The New American Cinema. He was a frequent contributor to Arts Magazine, Art and Literature, College Art Journal, and Film Culture. Anne M. Wagner is Professor of the History of Art, University of California, Berkeley.

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"Good criticism of contemporary art movements is both rare and scattered, and readers with access to a wide range of periodicals and catalogue introductions are few. . . Minimal Art is so obviously the most important movement of the 1960s, and equally certainly will continue to be so in the early 1970s, that this anthology will be a valuable compilation of statements by artists and assessments by critics."--"Apollo

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