Minimalism

Minimalism & Beyond explores Minimalism and its legacy in contemporary art from the second half of the twentieth century through the present day. This beautifully produced catalogue features images of works by all 28 participating artists along with an essay A Minimal Legacy by...

Elemental Form features the work of twenty-two artists artists that were reconsidering the basic questions of painting and sculpture in the 19060s an 1970s. In starting anew, they gave value to the primary forms and processes of art making. When the Elemental Forms assembled...

Text in English and German The Minimalist view uncovers the aesthetics of everyday life and transforms them into something extraordinary and inspiring. Here the works of fifteen selected international photo artists reveal the multifaceted range of a global movement. With their reduction to the...

The 2013 exhibition Donald Judd: Stacks at Mnuchin Gallery focused on this single aspect of Donald Judd's work. Featuring ten stacks from four decades, this was the first exhibition devoted to this iconic form in Judd’s oeuvre and the history of modern sculpture. Judd is...

Two design styles perfectly embrace tidiness. One was developed in the United States in the 18th century by a devout sect of Quakers who had emigrated from England, the other was formed over thousands of years on the islands of Japan. Although they have...

Working within the chromatic and formal vocabulary of Concrete art, Martin Vosswinkel (b. 1963) is concerned with colour, material and space. The book is divided into three sections each presenting a broad selection of work from a distinct Vosswinkel's oeuvre - Painting, Installation and Photography. Each...

This is a revelatory consideration of the wide-ranging practice of one of the most influential American artists of the 20th century. A pioneer of minimalism and conceptual art, Sol LeWitt (1928–2007) is best known for his monumental wall drawings. LeWitt’s broad artistic practice, however, also...

In Nothing Less than Literal, Mark Linder shows how minimalist art of the 1960s was infiltrated by architecture, resulting in a reconfiguration of the disciplines of both art and architecture. Linder traces the exchange of concepts and techniques between architecture and art through a...

The first in-depth study of a group of artists known for their irony, their theoretical impulses, and their market success in the 1980s. Emerging from New York's East Village art scene of the 1980s, the so-called neo-geo artists were a loosely associated group that...

Philip Glass is one of the most important pioneers of American minimal music and scores for for well-known films such as The Illusionist, The Truman Show, Fantastic Four and Cassandra's Dream. This beautifully produced photobook is a portrait of the life and work of the famous pianist...

The exhibition Carl Andre In His Time featured a group of Andre’s seminal early sculptures accompanied by contemporaneous masterworks by leading figures of the period, including John Chamberlain, Dan Flavin, Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt, Robert Mangold, Brice Marden, Agnes Martin, Robert Ryman, and Frank...

Yves Klein (1928-1962) was a French artist and a leading member of the French artistic movement of Nouveau réalisme. He was a pioneer in the development of performance art, and is seen as an inspiration to and as a forerunner of minimal art. This is the exhibition catalogue...

This is a beautifully produced large-format catalogue published to accompany the exhibition Matthias Hoch at Rocket, London in 2008. Matthias Hoch photographs the backs of buildings, empty plazas and parking garages – anonymous places devoid of people where there is nothing obvious to see or experience. The photographs...

The artist Dan Graham (b. 1942) has a wide-ranging practice that encompasses writing, performance art, installation, video, photography, and architecture. Throughout his career, Graham has examined the symbiosis between architectural environments and their inhabitants, particularly in his pavilions made of glass and mirrors. His...

The sculptor Barry Flanagan (1941-2009) was best known for his bronze hare sculptures that walk, leap or sit in galleries and public spaces around the world. The success of these and related animal sculptures relatively late in his career has somewhat obscured the achievements...

This book documents the career of a pivotal figure of the Danish postwar avant-garde, Poul Gernes (1925–96) - Artist, designer and co-founder of the alternative art school Eks-Skolen. His serial, colorful works move between pop art and minimalism. In 1961 Gernes founded the Den...

28 photographs of manhole coverings and grilles randomly encountered on drifts through the urban landscape. With his characteristic interest in words and lines, Downsbrough applies his own playful minimal artistic grammar, system and precision in another work of his usual spareness and restraint. With...

Vivian Keulards is a conceptual portrait photographer. She creates visual human stories, often accompanied with text. Addiction is still a big taboo. With this photo book and project, Vivian Keulards breaks her silence around the addiction and death of her brother Hans. Years after...

Willi Dorner's projects include pieces for the stage, site specific performances and installations. He is also active in the field of short films, visual arts and stages photography. Most works are created in collaboration with artists and scientists from various fields. His project Bodies...

The minimalist concrete architecture of Tadao Ando has roots both in Japanese traditions and in Western architecture. This book begins with both contexts: it explores how Ando unites Japanese tradition with a contemporary Western architectural idiom. By analysing systematically and chronologically the roots and...