Word: minimalist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Robison has been grouped with the bleak, minimalist school of New Yorker writers who have succeeded Updike, Cheever, and Salinger. Though Robison writes the occasional Salingeresque sentence ("One morning I was fixing cinammon toast of something and I had to practically he on the counter to keep from going into a complete faint") such puppyish exaggeration is rare. Like Ann Beattie and Frederick Barthelme, she casts a cold and detached eye on her characters, and tends to write spare prose about her spare people. People, what's more, who are distanced from their emotions. We see them the outside, largely...
UNFORTUNATELY ON THE REST of the album, Trio attempts to integrate a wide variety of rock styles into their deadpan, minimalist sound; and here their thinness really shows through. In fact, the farther Trio delves into the past, the more disastrous the results. On "Tooralooralooraloo--Is it Old &Is it New," they aim for a tavern European folk ballad, and end up sounding like Perry Como. In fact, this song is so pathetically and limply delivered that it can't even be savored as good camp. "Drei Mann in doppelbett," on the other hand, links a pub chant with...
...jury member said the untitled sculpture appealed to him because it has "attractive austere qualities of minimalist art without appearing cold and purely geometric. The sloping, gateway appearance seems to sensitize and smooth the sharp affect of the sculpture...
Stella received critical acclaim for his minimalist paintings after he moved to New York. Reaction from critics to his highly simplistic, geometric paintings has ranged from the New York Herald Tribune calling Stella's early work "unspeakably boring" to Robert Hughes of Time magazine referring to a 1978 exhibit as "the bravest performance abstract art has offered in years...
...most impressive element is Adams' score, a synthesized 24-track tape whose only "live" sounds are the brass near the end. Bearing the independent title Light over Water, the music is cast in six mostly continuous movements. The piece reaches a new level of complexity for a minimalist work, moving away from the school's strict repetition and steady-rhythm tenets toward something more expansive and formally flexible...