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Singular forms (sometimes repeated) : art from 1951 to the present : [exhibition] Guggenheim Museum by Agnes Martin, Drew Daniel, Deyan Dudjic, Gia Kourlas, Mark Taylor, Robert Irwin, Douglas Wheeler, Carl Andre, Robert Gober, Félix González-Torres, Donald Judd, Ellsworth Kelly, Sol Lewitt, Richard Long, Brice Marden, Bruce Nauman, Robert Rauschenberg, Robert Ryman, Frank Stella, Turrell, James is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated) examines the impulse toward reduction, restraint, and lucidity in postwar art. Drawing on the Guggenheim's exceptional holdings of minimalist painting and singular sculpture, Singular Forms begins with Robert Rauschenberg's historic White Painting (1951), a stark, monochrome canvas. This seminal work establishes twin trajectories in the development of contemporary the elimination of all extraneous details to achieve an art of pure, essential form, and the attention to issues of perception. After a prologue including other examples of radical, monochrome paintings by Ellsworth Kelly, Frank Stella, and Ad Reinhardt, Singular Forms explores how these parallel artistic strategies were manifest in Minimalist and Conceptual art of the 1960s and 70s through the work of Carl Andre, Dan Flavin, Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt, Agnes Martin, and Lawrence Weiner, among others. Minimalism's impact on subsequent generations of contemporary artists begins with Postminimalism, which utilized the movement's deliberate paucity of formal means to explore a range of concerns including process, the dematerialization of the object, the performative nature of art, and the str

Author

Agnes Martin, Drew Daniel, Deyan Dudjic, Gia Kourlas, Mark Taylor, Robert Irwin, Douglas Wheeler, Carl Andre, Robert Gober, Félix González-Torres, Donald Judd, Ellsworth Kelly, Sol Lewitt, Richard Long, Brice Marden, Bruce Nauman, Robert Rauschenberg, Robert Ryman, Frank Stella, Turrell, James

Publisher

Guggenheim Museum Publications

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9780892073085

Subjects

Art, Arts