The simple question "What is minimalism?" has defied simple answers. Artists known as minimalists have distinctively different methods and points of view. This highly readable history of minimalist art shows how artists as diverse as Carl Andre, Donald Judd, Robert Morris, and Anne Truitt came to be designated as minimalists during a series of exhibitions in the 1960s.
"I can think of no book that even undertakes a comparable art historical account--not merely tracing a movement year by year, but showing how the movement's consciousness of itself emerged."--Arthur Danto, Times...