This blog's title is based upon the best question I ever overheard being asked, by a young Liverpudlian child to his mother, as in "What's..?". The answer seems to be something of a creative and cultural nature which, in deed (primarily the making of art) and word, this blog intends to explore...
Monday, May 08, 2006
Meyer’s Minimalism
Two months between updates is far too long a gap, but at least part of the hiatus has been spent most profitably, reading James Meyer’s wonderful ‘Minimalism: Art & Polemics in the Sixties’, an exemplary work of art historical scholarship which contextualizes the work & its coming-into-being of Judd, Morris, Flavin, Andre, Truitt & others within the theoretical, critical & philosophical debates of its time, most enlightening & re-inspiring, given the engagement I formerly enjoyed with, particularly, the theoretical issues surrounding such practice: it’s high time to get back on that particular wagon & then processing such thinking in some practical form.
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