Bodies in Minimalism: Gerard Byrne on ataraxia

9th February 2017ataraxia, Donald Judd, Epicureanism, Gerard Byrne, Minimalism, Minus Plato TodayDonald Judd, Epicureanism, Gerard Byrne, MinimalismMinus Plato

I will return in a future post to the 1980s, specifically to the shift from the appropriation practices of the early years of the decade (e.g. Louise Lawler, Sherrie Levine) to the participatory art of its end (e.g. Group Material, Felix Gonzalez-Torres), and what happened to the question of sexual difference in the process. I […]

Dear CS, Warmest, CS: Some Epicurean Letters

12th June 2014Ann McCoy, Brooklyn Rail, Christopher Stackhouse, Cindy Sherman, EpicureanismMinus Plato

On being generously invited by Ann McCoy to contribute a brief essay to the June issue of The Brooklyn Rail that she edited on the topic of the unconscious in contemporary art, I chose to write about how the Epicurean conception of the unconscious, via the work of the Roman poet and philosopher, Lucretius, can […]