They plug away at 70's-inspired riffs, creating atmospheric tracks that split the difference between minimalist post-rock and maximalist hard-rock.
Its tight, jabby songs, influenced equally by minimalist post-punk and sentimental white soul, end just when you think you've figured them out.
Its permanent collection — a huge array of Minimalist, post-Minimalist and Conceptual works from the 1960s to the present — is now displayed in the foundation's outpost in Beacon, N.Y.
Mr. Eliasson extracts from the legacies of hard-core Minimalists and Post Minimalists like Donald Judd, Dan Flavin, James Turrell and Richard Serra their inner Barnum.
This bracingly contentious but spatially challenged and cursory show is worth seeing, if only because it is the first in an American museum to survey the functional and semifunctional objects designed during the last three decades by artists, in this case 18 well-known Minimalists, post-Minimalists and post-post-Minimalists.
But above all, young artists are now tapping art of the 60's and 70's, not just, I suspect, because it is an occasion to make ironic cracks about their parents' youth but also because, in this era of cautious cultural consumerism, Minimalists, Post-Minimalists and Conceptualists can seem like the last true, heroic avant-garde.
"For a time it seemed clichéd and outmoded by the minimalist and post-minimalist generations.
"Rational Irrationalism" amounts to a provocative — and boldly illuminating — two-word critical essay on minimalist and post-minimalist art.
"Rational Irrationalism" amounts to a provocative and boldly illuminating two-word crilluminating two-wordalist and post-minimalist art.
"I am actually trying to shake the dust off these seemingly known images of Minimalist and post-Minimalist art".
