A Minimal Future? Art as Object 1958-1968
Written and edited by Ann Goldstein. Edited by Lisa Gabrielle Mark.Published on the occasion of the exhibition A Minimal Future? Art as Object 1958-1968, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, March 14, 2004 – August 2, 2004.As a new movement that arose in the 1950s and 1960s, Minimalism challenged traditional ideas about art-making and the art object. A Minimal Future? Art As Object 1958-1968, which accompanies a major exhibition at The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, offers a redefinition of Minimalism by situating it in the context of the concurrent aesthetics of modernist abstraction, pop art, and nascent ideas of conceptual art. Minimalism is presented as a range of strategies that propelled new definitions of the structure, form, material, image, and production of the art object and renegotiated its relationship to space and to the spectator. Focusing on the years 1958-1968, A Minimal Future? presents key works within the framework of a scholarly re-examination o