Week 3 - Minimalism and postminimalism lecture
- 1. Art Still Matters: Art in the Contemporary Australian Context Shepparton Art Museum 2015 LECTURE 3: MINIMALISM AND POSTMINIMALISM
- 2. Suggested Further Reading Minimalism: Michael Fried, “Art and Objecthood” in Artforum, Summer, 1967, V Postminimalism: Briony Fer, “Objects Beyond Objecthood” , Oxford Art Journal, 1999, Vol.22(2), pp.27-36
- 3. Minimalism • Art reduced to its fundamentals: colour; shape; line; texture • Non-representational • Non-symbolic: “It is what it is” • A module - endless configuration and repetition • Artists associated with Minimalism – Carl Andre, Dan Flavin, Donald Judd, Sol Le Witt, Agnes Martin, Robert Morris, Anne Truitt
- 4. “Barnett Newman and his acres of the sublime has been pointed out as a forerunner of Minimalism. Not for me any Vir Heroicus Sublimis. Transcendent trash.” Robert Morris quoted in Christopher Cherix, Notes on Print : With and After Robert Morris, p. 9 Barnett Newman Vir Heroicus Sublimis 1950-1
- 5. Michael Fried, “Art & Objecthood”, Artforum, 1967
- 6. Robert Morris Untitled (Mirror boxes) 1965/71
- 7. Robert Morris, Untitled (3Ls), 1965
- 8. Andre, Carl Equivalent VIII 1966 Andre, Carl Equivalent V 1966-69
- 9. Original drawing for a beer advertisement (1976) inspired by Carl Andre's 'Equivalent III,' in Tate CollectionTate Daily Express Cartoon satirising 'The Bricks' Controversy 19 Feb 1976
- 10. Donald Judd Untitled 1969 Essay: Donald Judd, “Specific Objects”, 1965
- 11. 11 Dan Flavin, Monument for V. Tatlin 1, 1964
- 12. Robert Morris “one of the conditions of knowing an object is supplied by the sensing of the gravitational forces acting upon it in actual space.” Robert Morris “Notes on Sculpture” in Artforum, 1966
- 13. • Return of the ‘gesture’ • Relationship between the artist’s body and the production of art • Initially opposed to hard edged geometric abstraction • The repetition of form first came through the process of making rather than as outcome Postminimalism
- 14. Richard Serra Hand Catching Lead 1968
- 15. SF MoMA, Eva Hesse’s Materials, 2002
- 16. Eva Hesse Accession II 1968
- 17. Eva Hesse, Repetition Nineteen III, 1968
- 18. Eva Hesse, Hang Up, 1966
- 19. Richard Serra, Splashed Lead, 1968
- 20. Richard Serra, To Lift, 1967
- 21. Bruce Nauman Walking in a Exaggerated Manner Around Perimeter of a Square (film still), 1968
- 22. Eva Hesse, Right After, 1969 The dematerialization of the art object - Lucy Lippard, 1968
Editor's Notes
- #2: Luigi Russolo Russolo and Piatti with noise instruments 1913ARTstor CollectionARTstor Slide GallerySourceData from: University of California, San Diego