Essays on Minimalism

Minimalist art and its relation to modernist painting and sculpture in generic terms applicable in art criticism. We first summarize its main points. Fried’s essay claims that Minimal Art (which he prefers to refer to as literalist art) is largely ideological. It defines its position as neither modernist painting nor modernist sculpture, but rather art…

Beginning with Michael Fried’s arguments in his 1967 essay ‘Art and Objecthood’, consider how the status of the art object (painting, sculpture, installation, etc. ) has changed over the last thirty-five years within Art History and fine practice.Fried’s essay is a kind of riposte to Judd and Morris, who he decried as literalists, coining the…

Introduction Form is an important way of expressing one’s artistic thoughts and emotion in architectural design, and it has been valued, thought deeply, and talked about by lots of architects in history. Because of their work, there is a wide variety of architecture forms created these days, with more and more buildings designed by architects….

Frank Stella is one of the few artists who emerged in the 1960s that experimented with modernism and minimalism. In his work, Jasper’s Dilemma, he was able to showcase these two elements. This is an artwork that showed symmetrical lines that formed geometric shapes. It is evident that there is a repetitious as well as…

This minimalist story is written by the famous author, Raymond Carver. Carver was born in 1938 in the small town of Clandestine, Oregon, to an alcoholic father who worked at a sawmill and his mother who worked as a waitress. After graduating from high school, Carver and his family moved to California, where he did…

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