Robert Pincus-Witten (April 5, 1935 – January 28, 2018) was an American art critic, curator and art historian.
6-514: Postminimalism is an art term coined (as post-minimalism ) by Robert Pincus-Witten in 1971 and used in various artistic fields for work which is influenced by, or attempts to develop and go beyond, the aesthetic of minimalism . The expression is used specifically in relation to music and the visual arts , but can refer to any field using minimalism as a critical reference point. In music, postminimalism refers to music following minimal music . Postminimalist visual art uses minimalism either as
12-407: A conceptual art aesthetic or a generative art practice. Like Fluxus , Postminimalism is more of an artistic tendency than a particular style, but in general, postminimalist artworks often use everyday objects, simple materials, and sometimes take on a pure formalist aesthetics or post-conceptual approaches. However, since postminimalism includes such a diverse and disparate group of artists, it
18-763: Is generally categorized within the meta-genre art music . Writer Kyle Gann has employed the term more strictly to denote the style that flourished in the 1980s and 1990s and characterized by: Minimalist procedures such as additive and subtractive process are common in postminimalism, though usually in disguised form, and the style has also shown a capacity for absorbing influences from world and popular music ( Balinese gamelan , bluegrass , Jewish cantillation , and so on). Robert Pincus-Witten Born in New York City, Pincus-Witten earned his undergraduate degree at Cooper Union , in New York City in 1956. He wrote his master's degree (1962) and Ph.D. (1968) both at
24-594: Is impossible to enumerate all the continuities and similarities between them. But as two opposing examples, take the work of Eva Hesse and her use of modern art grids and minimalist seriality that were usually hand-made, introducing a human element into minimalism in contrast to the machine fabrication more typical of the minimalism of someone like Carl Andre . Richard Serra was another prominent postminimalist though his large metal sculptures are completely machine made. In its general musical usage, "postminimalism" refers to works influenced by minimal music , and it
30-729: The University of Chicago . His dissertation, on Joséphin Péladan and the Salon de la Rose + Croix was written under Joshua Taylor and John Rewald . Pincus-Witten joined the Queens College, City University of New York in 1964. In 1970 he was promoted to professor at Queens College. Pincus-Witten retired from CUNY in 1990. In 1966 he began writing criticism for Artforum magazine as its senior editor. He became associate editor of Artforum in 1976. An initial book on minimalism and
36-438: The era following it was issued in 1977. His collected art criticism was published as Eye to Eye: Twenty Years of Art Criticism, in 1984. His treatise on postmodern art , Postminimalism into Maximalism: American Art 1966-1986, appeared in 1987. Postminimalism is an art term coined (as "post-minimalism") by Pincus-Witten in 1971 used in various artistic fields for work which is influenced by, or attempts to develop and go beyond,
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