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1	Minimal Art: A Critical Anthology more books like this by Gregory Battcock (Editor) Here with a new introduction and updated bibliography, is the definitive collection of writings by and about the work of the 1960s minimalists, generously illustrated with photographs of paintings, sculpture, and performance. see all copies from $6.50! new only from $29.88! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Minimal Art more books like this by Gregory Battcock (Editor) see all copies from $1.99! first editions
3	Minimalism: Art and Polemics in the Sixties more books like this by James Meyer What is minimalism? The answer to this simple question has defied simple answers. In this highly readable history of minimalist art James Meyer argues that 'minimalism' was not a coherent movement but a field of overlapping and sometimes opposed practices. He traces in comprehensive detail the emergence of six figures associated with the ... see all copies from $23.90! new only from $29.14! \| SVS
4	Practically Minimal: Simply Beautiful Solutions for Modern Living more books like this by Maggie Toy The new minimalist style of interior design is not about bare, white-walled rooms, starkly devoid of signs of human life; nor is it about massive expense and austere living. Many of today's designers - no longer content with hard-edged purity - adapt the minimalist vocabulary and imbue it with innovative, yet practical, twists. This book offers ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.98! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Eva Hesse more books like this by Mignon Nixon (Editor), Cindy Nemser (Editor) Eva Hesse's distinctive process-based art exerted a powerful influence on minimalist artists of the 1960s and continues to inspire artists. Using industrial materials such as latex and fiberglass, she exploited their flexibility to produce works with an unsettling psychic and corporeal resonance. Hesse, who was born in Germany in 1936 and raised ... see all copies from $8.98! new only from $14.46! \| SVS
6	Minimalism more books like this by David Batchelor Many people have difficulty in appreciating Carl Andre's "Equivalent VIII", consisting of 120 bricks, as a work of art. This publication shows not only how "the bricks" are indeed sculpture, but that minimalist works such as this present some of the most interesting and imaginative work of the 1960s. Minimalism emerged and developed as a reaction ... see all copies from $2.50! new only from $3.48!
7	Minimalism more books like this by James Meyer (Editor) The term Minimalism was coined to describe the work of a group of American artists who, in the 1960s, produced a decidedly unexpressionistic, reductive work with a hard industrial feel. While numerous minimalist painters exist, among them Robert Ryman, Robert Mangold and Brice Marden, most of the key Minimalists - Andre, Flavin Judd, LeWitt and ... see all copies from $19.90! new only from $29.25! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Open Systems: Rethinking Art C. 1970 more books like this by Donna de Salvo (Editor), Johanna Burton (Contributions by), Mark Godfrey (Contributions by) Open Systems examines how international artists rethought the object of art in the late 1960s and 1970s as they sought to connect with the increasingly urgent political developments of the decade and make their work more responsive to the world around them. Building on the structures of Minimalism and Conceptualism, the mid-Sixties saw a radical ... see all copies from $4.11! new only from $7.98! \| first editions
9	Design Art: Functional Objects from Donald Judd to Rachel Whiteread more books like this by Dr. Barbara Bloemink, Barbara Bolemink, Joseph Cunningham The most comprehensive and authoritative book available on the domestic furniture, lighting and design objects of Minimalist and Post-Minimalist artists from the 1960s to the present, including Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt, Dan Flavin, Robert Rauschenberg, John Baldessari, Rachel Whiteread, Richard Tuttle, Scott Burton and Isamo Noguchi. see all copies from $45.00! new only from $49.87! \| first editions
10	Modern Style more books like this by Elinor Friedman Felcher Today's new minimalism is worlds away from the stark, white, sterile minimalist environments of the 1970s. Now neutral settings concentrate on shape and texture with occasional bold flashes of color. This book will show readers the finest examples of the style in residences and how to apply this style in their own homes. 100 color photos. see all copies from $1.99! first editions
11	Tony Delap more books like this by Bruce Guenther A retrospective monograph that surveys the career of Tony DeLap, the leading artist of Southern Californian Minimalism. DeLap has sought to express the purity of idea and form through his lifelong exploration of the realm between painting and sculpture. With meticulous construction, manipulation of form and intellectual rigour, he has created ... see all copies from $8.21! new only from $16.21! \| first editions
12 view cover	Minimalism: Art of Circumstance more books like this by Kenneth Baker, S.J Beginning in the 1960s, artists like Frank Stella, Donald Judd, Carl Andre, Dan Flavin, Sol LeWitt, Robert Morris, Robert Smithson, Walter De Maria, Richard Serra, Eva Hesse, and Joel Shapiro reacted against the flamboyance and self-indulgence of Abstract Expressionism by pursuing materials, forms, and procedures that remove the personal mark of ... see all copies from $5.89! new only from $28.28! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	The Minimalist Garden more books like this by Christopher Bradley-Hole Minimalist gardens, with their emphasis on clean lines, pure form and a strong sense of space, are becoming increasingly popular. Exploring some of the very best examples - large and small, urban and rural - from around the world, award-winning garden designer Christopher Bradley-Hole explains how an understanding of space and proportion can be ... see all copies from $20.00! new only from $23.47! \| first editions
14 view cover	Minimal Politics: Performativity and Minimalism in Recent American Art more books like this by Maurice Berger see all copies from $4.64! new only from $12.77! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Minimal Art: The Critical Perspective more books like this by Frances Colpitt In this important work, Frances Colpitt chronicles the Minimal art movement of the 1960s. Maintaining the original spirit of the period - enthusiasm for innovation and a passionate commitment to intellectual inquiry - Colpitt provides an excellent documentary history that is both thorough and non-partisan. see all copies from $9.95! new only from $33.60! \| first editions
16 view cover	A Minimal Future?: Art as Object 1958-1968 more books like this by Ann Goldstein (Editor), Lisa Mark (Editor) As a new movement that arose in the 1950s and 1960s, Minimalism challenged traditional ideas about art-making and the art object. A Minimal Future? Art As Object 1958-1968, which accompanies a major exhibition at The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, offers a redefinition of Minimalism by situating it in the context of the concurrent ... see all copies from $38.00! new only from $42.24! \| SVS
17 view cover	Jaume Plensa more books like this by Jaume Plensa The Barcelona artist Jaume Plensa is best-known for his spectacular Crown Fountain in Millennium Park, Chicago. Constructed between 1999 and 2004 with support from the Crown Foundation, this work features water cascading down two monumental towers, as well as video and lighting effects. Alternating images recorded on video by Plensa show the faces ... see all copies from $20.00! new only from $77.11! \| first editions
18	Labyrinths: Robert Morris, Minimalism & the 1960's more books like this by Maurice Berger see all copies from $15.00! new only from $49.90! \| signed copies \| first editions
19 view cover	Aspects of Minimal Architecture II more books like this by Maggie Toy (Editor) Minimal architecture as practised today reflects the desire for a reductivist way of life, a search for calm and tranquil environments, and a desire to rid life of unnecessary clutter. Designers who follow this design format have their theories rooted in those of the modern movement and the discussions about the validity of this source go on and ... see all copies from $10.98! new only from $11.95! \| signed copies \| first editions
20	Sense and Sensibility: Women Artists and Minimalism in the Nineties more books like this by Lynn Zelevansky, Museum of Modern Art see all copies from $3.00! first editions
21	Signs of Life: Process and Materials, 1960-1990 more books like this by Melissa Feldman, University of Pennsylvania see all copies from $23.49!
22	Michelangelo Pistoletto more books like this by Michelangelo Pistoletto, Augusta Monferini, Anna Imponente, Galleria nazionale d'arte moderna (Italy) see all copies from $7.20! new only from $50.54!
23 view cover	The Architecture of Minimalism more books like this by Arco Publishing, Hearst Books Internati Arco, Francisco Asensio Cerver The impact of a powerful artistic movement on architecture is seen in this global study. see all copies from $45.49! first editions
24	Art of Our Time Volume 2 more books like this by Mr. Hilton Kramer, Robert Rosemblum, Peter Schjeldahl see all copies from $3.56!
25 view cover	Sense and Sensibility more books like this by Lynn Zelevansky Sense and Sensibility presents the work of seven female artists who deliberately violate some precepts of Minimalism while accepting others, using Minimalist strategies in concert with such unorthodox materials as cast lipstick, eye shadow, plastic bags, and crushed stretch velvet. The artists are: Polly Apfelbaum, Mona Hatoum, Rachel Lachowicz, ... see all copies from $9.50! new only from $185.13!

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