Word: minimalist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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BAXTER. A vicious bull terrier (who growls the narration) finally finds an owner meaner than he is. Jerome Boivin's minimalist French thriller is no carnival of canine violence. It rarely goes for the jugular, yet it drains the viewer bloodless...
...women's art. Their work has incorporated techniques of traditional "women's work" -- quilting, embroidery, crafts -- or explored female sexuality. Inspired by Islamic and Near Eastern designs, Schapiro, Joyce Kozloff and others have produced large works resembling huge swatches of patterned fabric. Their tableaux infused geometric abstraction's smooth, minimalist surfaces with an explosion of zigzags and curlicues. Thus during the 1970s emerged the style called pattern and decoration...
Barrett also criticized Silber's opponent, William F. Weld '66. "I am struck by Bill Weld's aloofness. He runs a minimalist campaign" whose only theme is the need to reduce the size of government and lower taxes, the senator said...
...This minimalist approach succeeded last year in Hill's bleak staging of Samuel Beckett's Endgame, because it reflected the barrenness of Beckett's verbal landscape. But in a show about the foibles of human emotion and the intricacies of deception, more natural and sympathetic direction is required. The audience may laugh at the characters in Betrayal, but Hill ensures that we will never empathize...
Then Shapiro began to move toward the human figure. This note is struck in the very first object in the Baltimore show, made in 1974, which from across the room (or in reproduction) looks like one of the abstract scatter pieces done by minimalist sculptors in the '70s -- Serra or Barry Le Va -- but is in fact an image of human dismemberment. Look closer, and the bits of wood turn ! out to be an artist's mannequin that Shapiro broke up in a fit of anger -- "I pulled it apart and just threw it around the room," he says...