Minimal Art: A Critical Anthology / Edition 1

by Gregory Battcock, Anne M. Wagner

Overview

Here with a new introduction and updated bibliography, is the definitive collection of writings by and about the work of the 1960s minimalists, generously illustrated with photographs of paintings, sculpture, and performance.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780520201477
Publisher:	University of California Press
Publication date:	08/03/1995
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	454
Product dimensions:	5.70(w) x 8.00(h) x 1.20(d)

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.

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