Minimalism

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James Meyer is a writer and art historian who has been teaching contemporary art and critical theory at Emory University Atlanta since 1994. He is a noted specialist and lecturer in Minimalism as well as other forms of American art of the 1960s and contemporary forms of institutional critique. Meyer has written extensively on Minimal artists. Publications include Minimalism: Art and Polemics in the 1960s (Yale 2001); he has contributed essays to Mel Bochner: Thought Made Visible 19661973 (Yale 1995); Ellsworth Kelly: Sculpture for a Large Wall 1957 (Matthew Marks Gallery 1998); Eva Hesse: A Retrospective ed. Elisabeth Sussman (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 2002); Conceptual Art: Theory Myth Practice (Cambridge 2004) and A Minimal Future (Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles 2004). He is the editor of Carl André Cuts=Texts 19992004 (MIT Press 2005) and has contributed to journals Artforum Art Magazine Flash Art and Parkett.