This volume is not limited to a single genre, but offers an integrated view of all the significant artistic developments of one crucial decade, the extraordinary explosion that occurred between 1965 and 1975. The author, a leading art critic, focuses a new lens on this radical movement, showing the nuances that defined Minimalism in its various phases, as characterized by the inflected object, the disintegrated object, the ironic object -- then the transition from the object to architecture, space, landscape, cityscape, body, performance, and concept art. No other account has documented in such detail the scope and impact of this artistic revolution, which the author argues spanned all mediums and pushed every aesthetic possibility of Minimalism to an extreme.

Shown and discussed are works by dozens of major artists of the period, including Donald Judd, Robert Morris, Sol LeWitt, Eva Hesse, Rosemarie Castoro, Jackie Winsor, Rafael Ferrer, Richard Artschwager, Bruce Nauman, Joel Shapiro, Alice Aycock, Will Isley, Nancy Holt, Vito Acconci, Chris Burden, William Wegman, Adrian Piper, and many others.