Minimal Art: A Critical Anthology

New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1968. 448 pages, illustrations; 20 cm. An acceptable reading copy, with a creased spine & front cover. A few scattered marks within. A scruffy, but serviceable copy. Another copy available. Essential reading for anyone interested in Minimalism and the art of the 1960s. All the seminal writings, including Michael Fried's "Art and Objecthood", are included. CONTENTS: Introduction; Systemic painting, by Lawrence Alloway; Sculpture as architecture : New York letter, 1966-1967, by Michael Benedikt; Serial art, systems, solipsism, by Mel Bochner; The razed sites of Carl Andre, by David Bourdon; Subject matter in the work of Barnett Newman, by Nicolas Calas; Art and objecthood, by Michael Fried; Questions to Stella and Judd, by Bruce Glaser; Two exhibitions, by E. C. Goossen; Photographs, by Dan Graham; Recentness of sculpture, by Clement Greenberg; Mannerism in the abstract, by Peter Hutchinson; A systematic revery from abstraction to now, by David Lee; Minimal art and primary meanings, by Allen Leepa; Eros presumptive, by Lucy R. Lippard; Notes on sculpture, by Robert Morris; Literalness and the infinite, by Toby Mussman; Minus Plato, by Brian O'Doherty; Minimal abstracts, by John Perreault; A quasi survey of some "minimalist" tendencies in the quantitatively minimal dance activity midst the plethora, or an analysis of trio A, by Yvonne Rainer; A B C art, by Barbara Rose; Defining art, by Harold Rosenberg; Gesture and non-gesture in recent sculpture, by Irving Sandler; Luminism and kineticism, by Willoughby Sharp; Schemata, by Elayne Varian; Talking with Tony Smith; Samuel Wagstaff, Jr.; Minimal art, by Richard Wollheim; Writings, by Martial Raysse, Dan Flavin, Robert Smithson.. Paperback. Fair. 8vo.