Minimalism by James Meyer

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This beautifully illustrated book is internationally recognized as the most definitive survey of Minimalism, among the most influential movements in late twentieth-century art.

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Minimalism by James Meyer

This beautifully illustrated book is internationally recognized as the most definitive survey of Minimalism, among the most influential movements in late twentieth-century art.

"Readers will learn as much about the subject as one book can be expected to deliver"—Barry Schwabsky, Bookforum

"Well written... An excellent ‘Documents’ section that allows a proper investigation of the movement’s theoretical bases."—Art Review

"Phaidon's Themes and Movements series seeks to provide the late 20th-century art history books of the future."—Art Monthly

James Meyer is a writer and art historian who has been teaching contemporary art and critical theory at Emory University, Atlanta, since 1994. He is a noted specialist and lecturer in Minimalism, as well as other forms of American art of the 1960s, and contemporary forms of institutional critique.

Meyer has written extensively on Minimal artists. Publications include Minimalism: Art and Polemics in the 1960s (Yale, 2001); he has contributed essays to Mel Bochner: Thought Made Visible 1966–1973 (Yale, 1995); Ellsworth Kelly: Sculpture for a Large Wall, 1957 (Matthew Marks Gallery, 1998); Eva Hesse: A Retrospective, ed. Elisabeth Sussman (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2002); Conceptual Art: Theory, Myth, Practice (Cambridge, 2004) and A Minimal Future (Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 2004). He is the editor of Carl André, Cuts=Texts, 1999–2004 (MIT Press, 2005) and has contributed to journals Artforum, Art Magazine, Flash Art and Parkett.

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ISBN 13 9780714834603
ISBN 10 0714834602
Title Minimalism
Author James Meyer
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Phaidon Press Ltd
Year published 2000-05-12
Number of pages 306
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.