Neo-minimalism
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Neo-minimalism is an amorphous art movement of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. It has alternatively been called "neo-geometric" or "neo-geo" art, "Also Fakism, Neo-Conceptualism, Neo-Futurism,...Neo-Op, Neo-Pop, New Abstraction, Poptometry, Post-Abstractionism, Simulationism," and "Smart Art...."[1] The aspects of "postmodern art" that have been described as neo-minimalism (and related terminology) involve a general "reevaluation of earlier art forms."[2]
As its various titles indicate, the movement draws on earlier mid-to-late-twentieth century developments in Abstract Expressionism and its offshoots, plus Pop Art, Op Art, and other threads of artistic development. Contemporary artists who have been linked to the term, or who have been included in shows employing it, include David Burdeny, Catharine Burgess, Marjan Eggermont, Paul Kuhn, Eve Leader, Tanya Rusnak, Laurel Smith, Christopher Willard, and Time Zuck. The steel sculptures of Richard Serra have been described as "austere neo-Minimalism...."[3]
Beyond painting, sculpture and other "museum art," the term has been applied to architecture, design, and music.[4] In architecture, indeed, neo-minimalism has been identified as a part of "the new orthodoxy...."[5]
"After the bacchanal of post-modernism, the time has again come for neo-minimalism, neo-ascetism, neo-denial and sublime poverty."[6]
References
- ^ John Albert Walker, Glossary of Art, Architecture, and Design Since 1945, Third edition, New York, G. K. Hall, 1992; p. 443.
- ^ Fred S. Kleiner and Christin J. Mamiya, Gardner's Art Through the Ages: The Western Perspective, Twelfth edition, Thomson / Wadsworth, 2005; Vol. 2, p. 844.
- ^ Casey Nelson Blake, "An Atmosphere of Effrontery," in: The Power of Culture: Critical Essays in American History, Richard Wightman Fox and T. J. Kackson Lears, eds., Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1993; p. 259 n. 17.
- ^ Cadence: The American Review of Jazz and Blues, Vol. 14 (1988), p. 65.
- ^ Brooke Hodge, ed., Not Architecture But Evidence That It Exists, Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 1999; p. 121.
- ^ Juhani Pallasmaa, Architecture in Miniature, Museum of Finnish Architecture, 1991; p. 1.
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