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 […]
Category Archives: Minimalism
Yesterday I went to a great talk by James Meyer, the Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. and author of Minimalism: Art and Polemics in the Sixties (2001) and Minimalism (2010) for Phaidon’s ‘Themes and Movements’ series. (The latter volume has a lot to answer for […]