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minimalism schools of contemporary art and music, with their origins in the 1960s, that have emphasized simplicity and objectivity. Minimalism in the Visual Arts Reacting against the formal excesses and raw emotionalism of abstract expressionism , the practitioners of minimal art (also s... Read more
Donald Clarence Judd
Donald Clarence Judd 1928-94, American artist, b. Excelsior Springs, Mo. His sculpture, allied with the minimalist school of the late 1960s (see minimalism ; modern art ), has the appearance of industrial fabrication. He used rectangular forms fashioned from painted wood, polychrome, or steel in ... Read more
Carl Andre
Carl Andre , 1935-, American sculptor, b. Quincy, Mass. A former student of Patrick Morgan and Frank Stella, Andre produces sculptures of elemental, classic form. His works reflect the quarries, shipyards, and islands of his birthplace and his years spent as a freight-train brakeman. One of the foun... Read more
Sir Alec Guinness
Sir Alec Guinness , 1914-2000, English actor, b. London. After his stage debut in 1934, Guinness performed with John Gielgud 's company and at the Old Vic . An actor of enormous versatility and range on stage and in film, he was especially noted for his minimalist approach and his finely tuned int... Read more
Ann Beattie
Ann Beattie , 1947-, American writer, b. Washington, D.C. She gained attention in the early 1970s with short stories in The New Yorker magazine and won acclaim with the 1976 publication of her novel Chilly Scenes of Winter and her story collection Distortions, both chronicling with ironic wit ... Read more
Morton Feldman
Morton Feldman 1926-87, American modernist composer, b. New York City. An associate of John Cage and other experimental composers, Feldman was part of the so-called New York school. He was also a friend of many of the major painters involved in abstract expressionism , and the directness, immedi... Read more
Frank Stella
Frank Stella 1936-, American artist, b. Malden, Mass. In his early "black paintings" Stella exhibits the precision and rationality that characterized minimalism , employing parallel angular stripes to emphasize the rectangular shape of his large canvases. His innovative and influential use of ... Read more
John Cage
John Cage 1912-92, American composer, b. Los Angeles. A leading figure in the musical avant-garde from the late 1930s, he attended Pomona College and later studied with Arnold Schoenberg , Adolph Weiss, and Henry Cowell . In 1943 he moved to New York City, where his concerts featuring percussion ... Read more
Philip Glass
Philip Glass 1937-, American composer, b. Baltimore. Considered one of the most innovative of contemporary composers, he was a significant figure in the development of minimalism in music. Glass attended the Juilliard School of Music (M.A., 1962) and studied (1964-66) with Nadia Boulanger in Pa... Read more
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe , 1886-1969, German-American architect. A pioneer of modern architecture and one of its most influential figures, he is famous for his minimalist architectural dictum "less is more." In Germany, he was an assistant to Peter Behrens . Mies's 1921 design for an all-glass ... Read more

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minimalism
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...expressive content to the bare minimum. Many minimalist artists were sculptors concerned with...Minimalism in Music In music, the minimalist movement was, like minimal art, a...and other modern forms. Generally, minimalist compositions tend to emphasize simplicity...
Sol LeWitt
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...created drawings and sculptures in the Minimalist and Conceptualist categories. Sol LeWitt...that they require complex definitions. Minimalist artists emphasize basic materials and...planes made his sculpture fit into the Minimalist category, along with that of sculptors...
Luis Barragán
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...modernism. Barragán has been termed a Surrealist, a Minimalist, and a Post-Modernist, yet his works are personal and...house fell under the palette. New works as well, though Minimalist in form, were enlivened and humanized by the additio
Ravi Shankar
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...traditions to incorporate Western classical, popular music, and minimalist musical forms. Already an established musician and composer...influencing the jazz recordings of John and Alice Coltrane and the minimalist compositions of Phillip Glass, with whom Shankar collaborated...
Mompou, Frederic
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...his works toward the end of the twentieth century, when the Minimalist movement of composers such as Steve Reich and Philip Glass...wrote in Mompou's obituary that the composer was "an early Minimalist, [who] sought to achieve deep emotional effects through...
Mona Van Duyn
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...the poems are in a short-lined sonnet form that Van Duyn describes as a "minimalist sonnet." Critic Ben Howard wrote of Firefall that "Apart from its minimalist experiments the present collection breaks no new ground, but like the poet...
Reinhold Messner
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...He has written over 30 books on his adventures, and his minimalist techniques have revolutionized Himalayan mountain climbing...oxygen restriction. Despite this, they continued with their minimalist methods, forcing some exercise physiologists to reconsider...
Israeli Settlements
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa ...Prime Minister Yigal Allon, the settlement blueprint was a minimalist one aimed at constructing a line of agricultural settlements...Shelemah"). They criticized the Allon plan for being minimalist and too compromising in its territorial claims. Their settlement...
Obituaries
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...of natural causes in Litchfield, Connecticut, on September 6, 2007 (Vol. 18). LEWITT, SOL (born 1928), American Minimalist and Conceptualist artist, died of cancer in New York on April 8, 2007 (Vol. 9). MACCREADY, PAUL (born 1925), American...
Haefliger, Ernst
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Austria's prestigious Salzburg Festival in 1949. The work, in a neo-primitive style that had what today would be called minimalist elements, was a complete change of pace from Bach and from Haefliger's earlier operatic experience. Haefliger joined the...

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Minimal art
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists ...close links with Conceptual art (Minimalist sculpture often has a strong element...finished products). The leading Minimalist sculptors include Carl Andre , Don Judd , and Tony Smith . Minimalist painters (for whom the immediate...
Democratic Party
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...as they were then known, favored minimalist government, retirement of the national...Jefferson as president was not the minimalist that Jefferson the opposition leader...Jackson steered the party back toward its minimalist origins. Jackson vetoed the recharter...
Adams, John
Dictionary entry from: Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Popular Musicians Since 1990 ...commissioned and performed. Adams's music fit neatly with the minimalist style of composition that was shaking off the complexities...that seemed to want to develop beyond the repetitions of the minimalist style. These expansive musical sensibilities were channeled...
Rainer, Yvonne
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...By RAINER: articles— "A Quasi Survey of Some 'Minimalist' Tendencies in the Quantita-tively Minimal Dance Activity...by "neutral 'doers"' rather than performers. Thus the minimalist dance that she pioneered, which depended on ordinary movements...
de Antonio, Emile
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...personalities in the New York art world. He went drinking with Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns and organized "galas" for the minimalist composer John Cage and the dancer Merce Cunningham. As far as his future filmmaking was concerned, this period was crucial...
Morphine
Dictionary entry from: Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Popular Musicians Since 1990 ...for Pain (1993) In an era ruled by guitar-driven grunge rock, Morphine was a band without a guitarist. The trio's minimalist sound and guttural grooves evoked midnight passion, foreboding scenarios, and abstract dreams. Its sensual, bluesy music...
Tribe Called Quest, A
Dictionary entry from: Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Popular Musicians Since 1990 ...stack a heavy wall of noise, Tribe strips everything down to the bare bones: a rhythm section of bass lines and drums and minimalist melodic arrangements of jazz loops and soul samples. From the catchy, midtempo bounce of "Check the Rhime" to the energetic...
Brandy
Dictionary entry from: Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Popular Musicians Since 1990 ...array of electronic blips and scratches, never gets in the way of its underlying groove; it manages to sound elaborate and minimalist at the same time. With their slightly off-kilter sensibility, "What About Us?" and similarly styled tracks such as...
Ramírez Villamizar, Eduardo
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art ...powerful, repeated diagonal rhythms. Their simplicity and use of repeated units bring them close to American Minimal Art but they avoid all trace of minimalist passivity’ ( Latin American Art of the 20th Century , 1993).
Rauschenberg, Robert
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art ...first one-man show (coolly received) at the Betty Parsons gallery, New York, in 1951. At this period his work included minimalist monochromatic paintings. In the mid-1950s he began to incorporate three-dimensional objects into what he called ‘...

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functional
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...xA0; 1. a small functional kitchen synonyms : practical, useful, utilitarian, utility, workaday, serviceable; minimalist, plain, simple, basic, modest, unadorned, unostentatious, no-frills, without frills; impersonal, characterless...

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The minimalist short story: its definition, writers, and (small) heyday.
Magazine article from: Studies in Short Fiction; 9/22/1996; ; 700+ words ; ...1985 ("After Minimalism" 53). The minimalist fad, Madison Smartt Bell said in 1989...the light" (Koch et al., 61). Minimalist stories were denounced in scholarly...the New York Times Book Review. The minimalist story, Carol Iannone said, was "a...
Is less more? A reinvention of realism in Raymond Carver's minimalist short story.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: CRITIQUE: Studies in Contemporary Fiction; 3/22/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...of resolutions, Raymond Carver's minimalist short stories have often served as an...one that soon became christened "minimalist." Rather abruptly, Atlas opens his...questioning the artistic value of these minimalist stories' austere aesthetic, wondering...
Principles and heuristics for designing minimalist instruction.
Magazine article from: Technical Communication; 5/1/1995; ; 700+ words ; Minimalist instruction is heavily learner oriented...repeatedly proven the effectiveness of minimalist instruction (Black et al. 1987; Carroll...However, since the conception of minimalist instruction in the early 1980s, only...
MINIMALIST REQUIREMENTS ACCORDING TO JOHN ADAMS.(U)
Newspaper article from: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA); 3/25/2006; 700+ words ; ...of the Los Angeles Philharmonic's Minimalist Jukebox festival, a comprehensive survey...starting Friday, is frequently called a Minimalist, though he eschews the designation...closure like the plague. Your classic Minimalist piece just stops, even after six hours...
Rural Opportunities: Minimalist Policy and Community-Based Experimentation.
Magazine article from: Policy Studies Journal; 3/22/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...both the benefits and liabilities of minimalist policy attention and community-based...farm policy concerns. The resulting minimalist federal approach to rural America was...s i nadvertent experimentation in minimalist policy attention and in community...
Less is more Spare, serene and simple, the minimalist look reflects lifestyle as much as tatse
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 2/1/1998; ; 700+ words ; ...architect John Pawson, explains why minimalist design has been so minimally embraced...Interiors magazine in New York. With a minimalist approach, "we can be more empowered...ago. "It definitely fits into the minimalist vocabulary. It's a celebration of...
LESS IS MORE "MINIMALIST ART NOW" EXHIBIT OPENS AT ELVEHJEM.(LIFESTYLE)
Newspaper article from: The Capital Times (Madison, WI); 2/4/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...had played itself out. Even though minimalist visual artists and playwrights (such...do that in a compact new exhibit, "Minimalist Art Now," in the Mayer Gallery of...for cultural attention. Most recent minimalist art is small scale, with finely detailed...
MINIMALIST ART GETS RETROSPECTIVE EXHIBIT
News Wire article from: United Press International; 5/9/2004; 700+ words ; ...United Press International 05-09-2004 Minimalist art gets retrospective exhibit NEW YORK...collected it and promoted it, so that now minimalist paintings and sculpture and related...then proceeds to works by such early minimalist U.S. flag-bearers as Ellsworth...
Maximizing minimalist wardrobes. (menswear accessories)
Magazine article from: Daily News Record; 3/26/1993; ; 700+ words ; NEW YORK -- A modern, minimalist approach to designer dressing will...Fifth Avenue, said that a modern, minimalist look should be approached in an...several seasons, and the tone was minimalist. "Minimalism is the opposite of...
John Roberts minimalist & Felix Frankfurter aficionado
Newspaper article from: Tribune-Review/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review; 6/4/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...a prisoner by the United States. A minimalist court would be inclined to rule on the...on physician-assisted suicide. A minimalist court would focus on the specific facts...program at a particular medical school. A minimalist court might strike down the specific...