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Edward Strickland

Minimalism

Origins

Edward Strickland

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English
Indiana University Press
22 September 2000
Art & design styles: Minimalism
"""The death of Minimalism is announced regularly, which may be the surest testimonial to its staying power"", says Strickland in this study, the first to examine in detail Minimalist tendencies in the plastic arts and music. Investigating the origins of Minimalism in postwar American culture, Strickland redefines it as a movement that developed radically reductive stylistic innovations in numerous media. The term Minimalism appeared in the mid-1960s, primarily with reference to the stripped-down sculpture of artists like Robert Morris and Donald Judd, both of whom detested the word. In the late 1970s it gained currency when applied to the repetitive music popularized by Steve Reich and Philip Glass. In the first part of the book Strickland shows how Minimalism offered a rethinking of the main schools of abstract art to mid-century. Within Abstract Expressionism Barnett Newman opposed the stylistic complexity of confessional action painting with non-gestural colour-field painting. Ad Reinhardt and Ellsworth Kelly reconceived the rhythmic construction of earlier Geometrical Abstraction in ""invisible"" and brilliant monochromes respectively and Robert Rausschenberg created Dadaist anti-art in pure white panels. Next, Strickland surveys Minimal music, from La Monte Young's long-tone compositions of the 1950s to his drone works of the Theatre of Eternal music. He examines the effect of foreign and nonclassical American music on Terry Riley's motoric repetition, developed from his tape experimentation Steve Reich's formulation of phasing technique and Philip Glass's unison modules. The third part of the book treats the development of Minimal sculpture and its critical reception. Strickland also discusses analogous Minimalist tendencies in dance, film and literature, as well as the incorporation of once-shocking Minimalist vocabulary into mass culture, from fashion to advertising. Investigating the origins of Minimalism in post-war American culture, Strickland redefines it as a movement that developed radically reductive stylistic innovations in numerous media over the third quarter of the 20th century."
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Imprint:   Indiana University Press
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 235mm,  Width: 155mm,  Spine: 21mm
Weight:   544g
ISBN:   9780253213884
ISBN 10:   0253213886
Pages:   320
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Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Edward Strickland, long a contributing editor to Fanfare, is the author of American Composers: Dialogues on Contemporary Music (also from Indiana University Press). In addition to writing articles on American culture, he has lectured on the topic in North America, Europe, and Asia.

Reviews for Minimalism:Origins

... a landmark work, the first attempt to write a pre-history of minimalism that embraces all the arts. Its importance cannot be overestimated. --K. Robert Schwarz, Institute for Studies in American Music All told, this book is mandatory reading for anyone who wishes to understand the history and nature of minimalism. --i/e NINE


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