Out of the box : the reinvention of art, 1965-1975 / Carter Ratcliff.
By: Ratcliff, Carter
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BookSeries: Aesthetics today: Publisher: New York : Allworth Press : School of Visual Arts, 2000Description: xii, 299 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.ISBN: 1581150733.Subject(s): Minimal art -- United States | Conceptual art -- United States | Art, American -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 709.7309046 Summary: "The author, a leading art critic, focuses a new lens on this radical movement, showing the nuances that defined Minimalism in its various phases, as characterized by the inflected object, the disintegrated object, the ironic object then the transition from the object to architecture, space, landscape, cityscape, body, performance, and conceptual art. No other account has documented in such detail the scope and impact of this artistic revolution, which the author argues spanned all mediums and pushed every aesthetic possibility of Minimalism to an extreme." -- Publisher's website.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The author, a leading art critic, focuses a new lens on this radical movement, showing the nuances that defined Minimalism in its various phases, as characterized by the inflected object, the disintegrated object, the ironic object then the transition from the object to architecture, space, landscape, cityscape, body, performance, and conceptual art. No other account has documented in such detail the scope and impact of this artistic revolution, which the author argues spanned all mediums and pushed every aesthetic possibility of Minimalism to an extreme.
Artists include: Barry Le Va, Robert Morris, Frank Stella, Dennis Oppenheim, Peter Hutchinson.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"The author, a leading art critic, focuses a new lens on this radical movement, showing the nuances that defined Minimalism in its various phases, as characterized by the inflected object, the disintegrated object, the ironic object then the transition from the object to architecture, space, landscape, cityscape, body, performance, and conceptual art. No other account has documented in such detail the scope and impact of this artistic revolution, which the author argues spanned all mediums and pushed every aesthetic possibility of Minimalism to an extreme." -- Publisher's website.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Acknowledgments (p. iv)
- Introduction: Smashing the Minimalist Enclosure (p. vi)
- Out of the Box (p. viii)
- Apodicticity (p. 3)
- From Box to Plane and Line (p. 15)
- Line Continued (p. 25)
- Line Enlarged (p. 37)
- Line Erased (p. 47)
- From Line to Grid (p. 59)
- Grid Continued (p. 69)
- From Grid to Room (p. 81)
- From Room to Maze (p. 95)
- Maze Continued (p. 109)
- Irony (p. 123)
- Dread (p. 135)
- Disintegration (p. 145)
- Absence (p. 157)
- Absence Revised (p. 165)
- Beyond Absence (p. 177)
- From Box to Behavior (p. 187)
- Behavior Continued (p. 199)
- Danger (p. 213)
- Beyond Danger (p. 225)
- Fact to Fiction (p. 239)
- Fiction Continued (p. 253)
- The Reinvention of Art (p. 265)
Reviews provided by Syndetics
Library Journal Review
Ratcliff, an art critic and contributing editor of Art in America, has produced an incisive and well-researched study of American art from 1965 to 1975. The text covers the entire spectrum of art activities of this time, including sculpture, painting, drawing, installation, earthworks, and photography. The usual suspects are discussed, including Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt, Dan Graham, Bruce Nauman, and the like, but Ratcliff also brings to light lesser-known artists, such as Mac Adams and Bill Beckley. Out of the Box chronicles the evolution of art from the severe minimalist object to a time of pluralism, when anything became possible. Ratcliff utilizes statements and writings by artists to substantiate his position rather than relying on critics from the period. The design is stylish but at times inordinate, detracting from the images, which are literally placed "out of the box." Recommended for academic and public libraries with substantial art collections. Krista Ivy, Bryn Mawr Coll., PA (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.Author notes provided by Syndetics
Born in Seattle in 1941, Washington, Carter Ratcliff grew up in Michigan and Ohio. In 1963, he earned a B.A. in English from the University of Chicago. By 1967, he had settled in New York. His books on art include John Singer Sargent (Abbeville Press, 1982); Robert Longo (Rizzoli, 1985); The Fate of a Gesture: Jackson Pollock and Postwar American Art (Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1996); and Andy Warhol: Portraits (Phaidon Press, 2007).(Bowker Author Biography)