Another Minimalism: Art After California Light and Space - Softcover

Feldman, Melissa E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1908612347 ISBN 13: 9781908612342

Publisher: Fruitmarket Gallery, 2015

Synopsis

A fascinating offshoot of minimalism, Light and Space art emerged in California in the 1970s and continues to be influential today. Another Minimalism traces the growth and development of the school, with its interest in site-specific installation, color, immateriality, and situationist and participatory art--all in all a very different kind of minimalism from the austere, mathematical abstractions that the term usually calls to mind.

Looking at the work of major contemporary artists like Tacita Dean, Olafur Eliasson, Carol Bove, and Spencer Finch, Feldman rewrites the story of minimalism's impact on later artists, revealing the powerful but largely unrecognized influence of West Coast artists like Robert Irwin, James Turrell, and Maria Nordman. Richly illustrated, Another Minimalism offers a convincing new angle on the work and legacy of key twentieth-century artists.

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About the Author

Melissa E. Feldman is a Seattle-based independent curator and writer who has contributed to Art in America, Frieze, Third Text, and Aperture, among other publications. She is the author of Secret Victorians: Contemporary Artists and a 19th Century Vision (1999).

Edition details

• Publisher: Fruitmarket Gallery
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1908612347
• ISBN 13: 9781908612342
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 148