Word: minimalist
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...horse images were embedded in a lush, forceful and nuanced paint surface that -- as in Cabin Fever, 1976 -- could be very handsome indeed. They included Minimalist signs, X's and quarterings, which made them seem more heraldic than natural. (Though the vertical split line that bisects Cabin Fever might be read as the finish post at the end of a horse race, it's probably just a relic of Minimalist style.) The opposites didn't amalgamate well. As Rothenberg herself put it, "My formalist side was denying my content side." And so "I began tearing it ((the horse)) apart...
...pick a single object that epitomized the difference between Hesse's work and other images of the Minimalist movement, it would be Accession II, 1969. Quick first glimpse: a gray metal-mesh cube, 30 inches on a side, sitting on the museum floor like the rest of the industrially fabricated boxes -- Donald Judd's, for instance -- that typify Minimal sculpture. But a few seconds later, how differently it reads! Every pair of holes in the mesh has a strand of gray plastic tubing threaded through it, the ends pointing inward. The whole inside of the cube is lined with these...
With no costume or set changes and few props, the minimalist nature of the The Fantasticks places a great burden on the cast. The script demands that the cast be multi-talented enough to sing, dance, and of course, act. Since the cast of the Leverett House production lacks the versatility to fulfill these exceptionally demanding roles, it appears at times as a painful endeavor to the audience...
...Harvard should be a leader," Green told the audience of about 50. "I think our rules should be minimalist and should be enforced...
...Such a minimalist framework of regulation may actually encourage moral acts, he said, citing Harvard's financial aid policy as an example...