Minimalism

JAMES MEYER is Associate Professor of Contemporary Art and Criticism at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia. He is internationally recognized as one of the leading authorities on Minimal art, American art of the 1960s and contemporary forms of institutional critique. Meyer has written extensively on the Minimal artists, including publications on Carl Andre, Donald Judd, Dan Flavin, Sol LeWitt and Jo Baer. A regular contributor to Artforum, he has published catalogue essays on artists including Met Bochner, Ellsworth Kelly, Mark Dion, Christian Philipp Müller, Andrea Fraser and Renée Green. His publications include 'The Writing of Art and Objecthood' in Refracting Vision : A Critical Anthology on the Writings of Michael Fried (Power Institute of Fine Arts, University of Sydney, 2000) and Minimalism : Art and Polemics in the Sixties (Yale University Press, 2000).