ART AS PROCESS Definition When the peripatetic artist, Robert Morris, abandoned his hollow gray wooden Minimal objects and pinned to the wall a cascade of felt folding itself into resplendent labial folds relaxing into a pool of material on the floor, the art world...
OBJECTS AND THE GESTALT IN MINIMAL ART The Primary Structures exhibition at the Jewish Museum in 1966 made official the existence of a new art movement, Minimalism. As would be the case in identifying any new trend, the collection of artworks and which artists were...
THE DIALECTICS OF MINIMALISM AS DISCOURSE Part Two As an art movement, Minimalism was one of the first to attempt to establish its own art writing and its artists attempted to assert themselves against the art critics. By the mid-sixties, cracks in the edifice of...
MINIMAL ART AS ART/NOT ART Part One “Installation Art” is an all-inclusive term encompassing performance art and public and and art exhibitions in which the objects and the way they are displayed are dependent upon the particular space and the presence of the...
