{"product_id":"minimal-art-and-artists-in-laura-garrard-9781861713926","title":"Minimal Art and Artists in the 1960s and After","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMINIMAL ART AND ARTISTS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is is a study of Minimal art and artists, particularly painters, sculptors, 3-D, installation and land artists.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll of the key practitioners and theoreticians of the still-influential 1960s Minimal art movement and style are studied here: Donald Judd, Robert Morris, Carl Andre, Frank Stella, Robert Ryman, Robert Smithson, Brice Marden, Dan Flavin, Eva Hesse, Sol LeWitt, and many land artists (such as Robert Smithson, Christo, James Turrell and Michael Heizer).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapters include: Minimal aesthetics; Minimal painting and painters; Minimal sculptors and sculpture; Minimal art and land artists; and Minimal art today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFully illustrated. 232 pages. Large format.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe text has been fully revised for this edition, with new illustrations added. www.crmoon.com.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Minimal artists did not consider themselves a group; they did not produce manifestos; they did not agree on  sthetics or working practices (though some were friends); they tended not to be directly involved in political art (Minimal art was more conservative than counter-culture); and they disliked the term 'minimalism'.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt tended to be the critics (as usual) who came up with the terms for the new art. Lucy Lippard used the term 'structurist', 'dematerialization' and 'eccentric abstraction'; Michael Fried had 'literalist' and 'objecthood'; Peter Hutchinson used 'Mannerist'; Barbara Rose coined 'ABC Art'; Lawrence Alloway had 'systematic painting'; Robert Morris took up 'unitary forms' and 'anti-form'; and Donald Judd employed 'specific objects'.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProbably the premier Minimal artist (and philosopher) is Donald Judd; Judd stands at the centre of Minimal art, and no account of Minimalism is complete without placing Judd in the foreground. Robert Smithson, Frank Stella, Donald Judd, Ad Reinhardt, Robert Morris and Carl Andre have been among the most lucid of theorists among artists.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the 1960s and 1970s, it seemed as if every artist went through a Minimal period at some time in their career, as well as a painting-as-sculpture period, and a brush with performance art (and perhaps body art). Both a Conceptual art phase and an on-going installation art preoccupation were mandatory for contemporary artists, it seems. All contemporary art can be viewed as basically Conceptual art, and a increasing proportion of it is installation art.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Laura Garrard\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1861713924\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781861713926\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Crescent Moon Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.93lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.69h x 7.44w x 0.49d","brand":"Laura Garrard","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48587931844863,"sku":"9781861713926","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/minimal-art-and-artists-in-laura-garrard-9781861713926","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}