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The field of minimalism as a critical controversy
Authors: Karaba, Elpida
Papastamou, Valia
Reviewer: Gerogianni, Irini
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The chapter analyzes the formal elements of new art through the prism of the emerging challenges to the specific nature of the medium and the self-referential character of the work. We examine how aspects of avant-garde movements leading to different artistic trajectories are interpreted and selectively adopted, moving from the negation of the repetitiveness of the "new" to the historical emergence of the ruptures of the "after" (i.e. introducing the genealogy of transitions from the modern to the postmodern, from minimalism to post-minimalism, which will be further developed). Minimalism: a new canon based on interpretations of constructivism, of the readymade as a structural invention, in the search for a balance of precision between the material and the ideal in the light of visibility and the variability of experience. The art of the process. Land art (as a first introduction to the emergent practices that form the passages for more articulated later practices linked to body and space which will be further analyzed as new formations of e.g. performance, public art, etc.). In the third part, we develop the theoretical positions that attempt to conceptualize historically the transitions from the modernism of the concrete medium - the specificity of the medium from formalism (objectivity) to specific objects - to the expanded condition of mediums. The theoretical and curatorial expansions and creative conceptualizations of new art, such as Rosalind Krauss's expanded field, verbal space, and indexicality, open up new horizons for experimenters who will contract the emergence of new practices, tracing the question of expanded practice from the perspective of the medium to the present day and its critical appraisals such as those of Hal Foster and more recently Anna Chave.
Linguistic Editors: Klada, Nektaria
Graphic Editors: Triantafyllakos, George
Type: Chapter
Creation Date: 08-07-2023
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License: Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
Handle http://hdl.handle.net/11419/10043
Bibliographic Reference: Karaba, E., & Papastamou, V. (2023). The field of minimalism as a critical controversy [Chapter]. In Karaba, E., & Papastamou, V. 2023. Transitions. From Modern to Contemporary Art. Critical Approaches. [Undergraduate textbook]. Kallipos, Open Academic Editions. https://hdl.handle.net/11419/10043
Language: Greek
Is Part of: Transitions. From Modern to Contemporary Art. Critical Approaches.
Publication Origin: Kallipos, Open Academic Editions