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Minimalism Art and Polemics in the Sixties: Defining the Radical Shift

"Minimalism in the 1960s was not merely an aesthetic preference for simplicity; it was a rigorous, highly contentious intellectual movement defined by the stripping away of metaphor, representation, and the artist's "hand." By replacing traditional composition with industrial materials and serial logic, artists challenged the status of the art object, shifting the focus from the artist’s inner expression to the viewer's physical encounter with space, scale, and time. The Philosophical Foundations of 1960s Minimalism The emergence of Minimalism in the early 1960s represented a systematic dismantling of Abstract Expressionism, which had dominate..."

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