Minimal Art A Critical Anthology [Paperback]

Here with a new introduction and updated bibliography, is the definitive collection of writings by and about the work of the 1960s minimalists, generously illustrated with photographs of paintings, sculpture, and performance.

Gregory Battcockwas a painter, lecturer in art history and criticism, and editor ofThe New Art: A Critical AnthologyandThe New American Cinema.He was a frequent contributor toArts Magazine, Art and Literature, College Art Journal,andFilm Culture.Anne M. Wagneris Professor of the History of Art, University of California, Berkeley.

So perspicuous was Battcock's choice of articles inMinimal Artthat his book has proved to be an exceptionally telling index of the critical discourse of its time. This is the key primary source bookfor that matter it remains the key bookon the subject of Minimal Art, a movement that has lately, newly become a topic of consuming interest to many modern art historians, critics, curators and artists. Anna C. Chave, author ofMark Rothko: Subjects in Abstraction

Good criticism of contemporary art movements is both rare and scattered, and readers with access to a wide range of periodicals and catalogue introductions are few. . . Minimal Art is so obviously the most important movement of the 1960s, and equally certainly will continue to be so in the early 1970s, that this anthology will be a valuable compilation of statements by artists and assessments by critics. David Irwin,Apollo