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Minimal Art

Author : Daniel Marzona
Publisher : Taschen
ISBN 13 : 9783822830604
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Minimal Art written by Daniel Marzona and published by Taschen. This book was released on 2004 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bare minimum Often regarded as a backlash against abstract expressionism, Minimalism was characterized by simplified, stripped-down forms and materials used to express ideas in a direct and impersonal manner. By presenting artworks as simple objects, minimalist artists sought to communicate esthetic ideals without reference to expressive or historical themes. This critical movement, which began in the 1960s and branched out into land art, performance art, and conceptual art, is still a major influence today. This book explains the how, why, where and when of Minimal Art, and the artists who helped define it. Featured artists: Carl Andre, Stephen Antonakos, Jo Baer, Larry Bell, Ronald Bladen, Walter De Maria, Dan Flavin, Robert Grosvenor, Eva Hesse, Donald Judd, Gary Kuehn, Sol LeWitt, Robert Mangold, John McCracken, Robert Morris, Robert Ryman, Fred Sandback, Richard Serra, Tony Smith, Frank Stella, Robert Smithson, Anne Truitt About the Series: Each book in TASCHEN's Basic Genre Series features: a detailed illustrated introduction plus a timeline of the most important political, cultural and social events that took place during that period a selection of the most important works of the epoch, each of which is presented on a 2-page spread with a full-page image and with an interpretation of the respective work, plus a portrait and brief biography of the artist approximately 100 colour illustrations with explanatory captions

Abstract Painting and the Minimalist Critiques

Author : Matthew L. Levy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429852975
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)

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Download or read book Abstract Painting and the Minimalist Critiques written by Matthew L. Levy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book undertakes a critical reappraisal of Minimalism through an examination of three key painters: Robert Mangold, David Novros, and Jo Baer. By establishing their substantive engagements with Minimalist discourse, as well as their often overlooked artistic exchanges with their sculptor peers, it demonstrates that painting crucially informed the movement’s development, serving not only as an object of critique but also as a crucible for its most central tenets. It also poses broader disciplinary implications as it historicizes and challenges Minimalism’s "death of painting" critiques that have been so influential to theories of modernism and postmodernism in the visual arts.

Minimal Art

Author : Gregory Battcock
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520201477
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Minimal Art written by Gregory Battcock and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1995-08-03 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of writings by and about the work of the 1960s minimalists, illustrated with photographs of paintings, sculptures and performance.

The Longing for Less

Author : Kyle Chayka
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1635572118
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (355 download)

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Download or read book The Longing for Less written by Kyle Chayka and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-01-21 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New Yorker staff writer and Filterworld author Kyle Chayka examines the deep roots-and untapped possibilities-of our newfound, all-consuming drive to reduce. “Less is more”: Everywhere we hear the mantra. Marie Kondo and other decluttering gurus promise that shedding our stuff will solve our problems. We commit to cleanse diets and strive for inbox zero. Amid the frantic pace and distraction of everyday life, we covet silence-and airy, Instagrammable spaces in which to enjoy it. The popular term for this brand of upscale austerity, “minimalism,” has mostly come to stand for things to buy and consume. But minimalism has richer, deeper, and altogether more valuable gifts to offer. In The Longing for Less, one of our sharpest cultural critics delves beneath the glossy surface of minimalist trends, seeking better ways to claim the time and space we crave. Kyle Chayka's search leads him to the philosophical and spiritual origins of minimalism, and to the stories of artists such as Agnes Martin and Donald Judd; composers such as John Cage and Julius Eastman; architects and designers; visionaries and misfits. As Chayka looks anew at their extraordinary lives and explores the places where they worked-from Manhattan lofts to the Texas high desert and the back alleys of Kyoto-he reminds us that what we most require is presence, not absence. The result is an elegant synthesis of our minimalist desires and our profound emotional needs. With a new afterword by the author.

Pictures of Nothing

Author : Kirk Varnedoe
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691252963
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Pictures of Nothing written by Kirk Varnedoe and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-10-17 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illuminating exploration of the meaning of abstract art by acclaimed art historian Kirk Varnedoe "What is abstract art good for? What's the use—for us as individuals, or for any society—of pictures of nothing, of paintings and sculptures or prints or drawings that do not seem to show anything except themselves?" In this invigorating account of abstract art since Jackson Pollock, eminent art historian Kirk Varnedoe, the former chief curator of painting and sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, asks these and other questions as he frankly confronts the uncertainties we may have about the nonrepresentational art produced in the past five decades. He makes a compelling argument for its history and value, much as E. H. Gombrich tackled representation fifty years ago in Art and Illusion, another landmark A. W. Mellon Lectures volume. Realizing that these lectures might be his final work, Varnedoe conceived of them as a statement of his faith in modern art and as the culminating example of his lucidly pragmatic and philosophical approach to art history. He delivered the lectures, edited and reproduced here with their illustrations, to overflowing crowds at the National Gallery of Art in Washington in the spring of 2003, just months before his death. With brilliance, passion, and humor, Varnedoe addresses the skeptical attitudes and misunderstandings that we often bring to our experience of abstract art. Resisting grand generalizations, he makes a deliberate and scholarly case for abstraction—showing us that more than just pure looking is necessary to understand the self-made symbolic language of abstract art. Proceeding decade by decade, he brings alive the history and biography that inform the art while also challenging the received wisdom about distinctions between abstraction and representation, modernism and postmodernism, and minimalism and pop. The result is a fascinating and ultimately moving tour through a half century of abstract art, concluding with an unforgettable description of one of Varnedoe's favorite works. Please note: All images in this ebook are presented in black and white and have been reduced in size.

Minimalism

Author : Tate Gallery Liverpool
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Minimalism written by Tate Gallery Liverpool and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Reading in Detail

Author : Naomi Schor
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135863474
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)

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Download or read book Reading in Detail written by Naomi Schor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who cares about details? As Naomi Schor explains in her highly influential book, we do-but it has not always been so. The interest in detail--in art, in literature, and as an aesthetic category--is the product of the decline of classicism and the rise of realism. But the story of the detail is as political as it is aesthetic. Secularization, the disciplining of society, the rise of consumerism, the invention of the quotidian, have all brought detail to the fore. In this classic work of aesthetic and feminist theory, now available in a new paperback edition, Schor provides ways of thinking about details and ornament in literature, art, and architecture, and uncovering the unspoken but powerful ideologies that attached gender to details. Wide-ranging and richly argued, Reading in Detailpresents ideas about reading (and viewing) that will enhance the study of literature and the arts.

Minimalism

Author : Kenneth Baker
Publisher : Abbeville Modern Art Movements
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Minimalism written by Kenneth Baker and published by Abbeville Modern Art Movements. This book was released on 1988 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The effects and influence of minimalism--the art movement in which artists removed personal expression and decorative detail from their work--continue to be felt today as art produced by its proponents continues to be exhibited and artists continue to use the style. The great movements of modern art, among them Impressionism, Surrealism, Cubism, and Abstract Expressionism, have challenged rather than accommodated critics and public. None more so than Minimalism, which unrelentingly questioned not only the nature of art, but also the place of art in society-especially the capitalist society of the United States. 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 works are, in fact, revolutionary, embodying an elemental immediacy unprecedented in Western art. Giving no quarter to complacent illusion and habits of perception, the Minimalists pushed aesthetic thought deeply into the crust of unexamined ideas that most of us take for granted as cultural terra firma. In this volume, illustrated with works ranging from small-scale sculpture and hermetic paintings to vast "earthworks," Kenneth Baker, the award-winning art critic of the San Francisco Chronicle, explores the history and challenge of Minimalism in the context not only of the trends it succeeded, but of those that have succeeded it. Minimalism: Art of Circumstance is one of those rare essays of critical insight that combine a comprehensive point of view with a revisionist spirit; for, in unfolding the history of his subject, Baker finally challenges the very notion of a "minimalist movement." The result is provocative, and in today's wildly pluralistic post-modern art world, this volume is living history-in fact, required reading. Art critic for the San Francisco Chronicle, Kenneth Baker publishes in all the major journals, including Art in America, Artforum, Architectural Digest, Connoisseur, The Atlantic, The New York Times, and many others. He has received the Manufacturers Hanover Trust-Art World Award for Distinguished Newspaper Art Criticism (1985) and his Minimalism studies have been supported by the Dia Foundation. Baker has taught at Brown University, Rhode Island School of Design, and Boston College. 128 illustrations

Minimalism

Author : James Meyer
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300105902
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book Minimalism written by James Meyer and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critic and art historian Meyer, a leading authority on Minimalism, examines the style from its inception to its broader cultural influence. This sourcebook features an excellent selection of nearly 300 color and b&w images to illustrate the surprising variety of the work.

Dan Flavin

Author : Tiffany Bell
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300106335
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Dan Flavin written by Tiffany Bell and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "New scholarship and interpretation of Flavin's work also appears in the form of three critical essays by experts and an extensive chronology, comprehensive bibliography, and exhibition history. In addition, this book includes Flavin's text, "'...in daylight or cool white.' an autobiographical sketch," originally published in Artforum in 1965, and two interviews with the artist - one from 1972 and the other from 1982."--BOOK JACKET.

Minimalism

Author : James Sampson Meyer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780300081558
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (815 download)

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Download or read book Minimalism written by James Sampson Meyer and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume shows how artists as diverse as Carl Andre, Donald Judd, Robert Morris, and Anne Truitt came to be designated as minimalists during a series of exhibitions in the 1960s. Minimalism describes movements in various forms of art and design where the work is stripped down to its most fundamental features. The author attempts to make sense of minimalism as an artistic moment. He points out that, at first, the term "minimalism" was derogatory, implying that the art was too reduced and abstract. In the late '60s, the label lost its stigma as the work was widely recognized by major museums, and minimalist art headed toward canonization. This work analyzes that process as well as the backlash against minimalism by leftists, especially in Europe, who associated it with American cultural imperialism. It also places minimalist art in a broader cultural context, noting the stripped-down, austere sensibility that prevailed in '60s fashion and design.

Reductive Minimalism

Author : Erica Barrish
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781930561182
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (611 download)

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Download or read book Reductive Minimalism written by Erica Barrish and published by . This book was released on 1914-10-04 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Art and Objecthood

Author : Michael Fried
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226263199
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (631 download)

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Download or read book Art and Objecthood written by Michael Fried and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1998-04-18 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much acclaimed and highly controversial, Michael Fried's art criticism defines the contours of late modernism in the visual arts. This volume contains 27 pieces--uncompromising, exciting, and impassioned writings, aware of their transformative power during a time of intense controversy about the nature of modernism and the aims and essence of advanced painting and sculpture. 16 color plates. 72 halftones.

Minimalist Abstract Art

Author : Martin Erisi
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (624 download)

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Download or read book Minimalist Abstract Art written by Martin Erisi and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2023-09-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A coloring book tailored for minimalist modern art enthusiasts awaits you. It's all about geometric shapes, open spaces, and the boundless canvas of your imagination. Originality is at the heart of it all. Each drawing is meticulously handcrafted with passion, ensuring every piece is a unique and original creation. We're all about quality too. With 50 distinct designs, painstakingly detailed, you're guaranteed top-notch craftsmanship. Diversity reigns supreme. Every project is a fresh canvas, promising fantastic and creative journeys with colors. Single-sided pages ensure each image stands alone, ready for your artistic touch. Let's talk relaxation. Coloring these modern, minimalist patterns offers a serene escape from life's challenges, inviting you into a world of vibrant creativity. Unleash your creativity. Crafting your own colorful universe fosters independence, boosts creativity, enhances self-esteem, and nurtures confidence. This coloring book is a thoughtful present for anyone in need of a peaceful, rejuvenating moment. 1. Featuring black back pages to prevent bleed-through. 2. Explore a collection of 52 distinct designs waiting for your creative touch. 3. Enjoy the convenience of single-sided printing, giving each artwork its own dedicated page. 4. Grab your copy now to indulge in hours of relaxing and creative fun with these soothing patterns. 5. The perfect present for occasions like birthdays, Christmas, Mother's Day, Father's Day, holidays, and more - a gift that keeps the creative spirit alive!

Minimalism and after

Author : Renate Wiehager
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Minimalism and after written by Renate Wiehager and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents works that have been purchased by the DaimlerChrysler Collection, initially only interested in Southern German artists but now international and mainly minimalist. Each work is introduced, examined and put in context.

Modern Art Abstract and Minimalist Print Collection Book #2

Author : Modern Sun Publishing
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (753 download)

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Download or read book Modern Art Abstract and Minimalist Print Collection Book #2 written by Modern Sun Publishing and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-02 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Browse through this collection of ready-to-frame prints and create instant art sets for your walls! You'll find a bold collection of artwork with pieces that are easy to mix and match, providing inspiration for instant artwork sets and gallery walls. The pages feature artwork in the following styles and themes: Modern Abstract Minimalist Mid Century Modern Geometric Monochrome Modern Scandinavian Boho Vintage Watercolor Nature With 24 unique prints to choose from, you can: Mix and match prints to create your own unique combinations Keep your style fresh by periodically changing the prints for a new look Decorate with art while staying within your budget Feature a single print on its own or combine multiple pieces to create 2-piece and 3-piece sets Create a gallery wall by selecting 6, 7, 8, or more prints that complement each other Give your friends a unique, customizable home decor gift Hang art in your living room, bedroom, and office, and more! Pages are printed on one side only to prevent shadow images from showing through. All prints are shown on the back cover, making it easy to view all prints together and create your decorating plan. To remove the print from the book, cut along the guide line using a utility knife or a pair of scissors. Trim the top and bottom edges where desired. The book is 8.5 x 11, and the prints are designed for an 8x10 frame or mat. If you like this book, be sure to check out the other books in our series of Art Print Collections.

Made in Los Angeles

Author : Rachel Rivenc
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 1606064657
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Made in Los Angeles written by Rachel Rivenc and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1960s, a group of Los Angeles artists fashioned a body of work that has come to be known as the “LA Look” or West Coast Minimalism. Its distinct aesthetic is characterized by clean lines, simple shapes, and pristine reflective or translucent surfaces, and often by the use of bright, seductive colors. While the role of materials and processes in the advent of these truly indigenous Los Angeles art forms has often been commented on, it has never been studied in depth — until now. Made in Los Angeles focuses on four pioneers of West Coast Minimalism — Larry Bell, Robert Irwin, Craig Kauffman, and John McCracken — whose working methods, often borrowed from other industries, featured the use of synthetic paints and resins as well as industrial processes to create objects that are both painting and sculpture. Bell, for example, coated plate glass with films of material that alter the way the light is absorbed, reflected, and transmitted, while Kauffman employed a process usually reserved for commercial signs for his work. McCracken coated plywood with fiberglass then spray painted it with countless layers of automotive paints, and Irwin spray-painted discs of hammered aluminum or vacuum-formed plastics. The detailed study of each artist’s work is presented in the context of the emergence of modern art in Los Angeles, the burgeoning mid-twentieth-century gallery scene, and the light-infused LA cityscape. Initially undertaken as part of the Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A.1945–1980 initiative, this volume combines technical art history and scientific analysis to investigate conservation issues associated with the work of these artists, which are often emblematic of issues in the conservation of contemporary art in general.