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The
Primary Structures art featured stripped-down forms and materials with smooth, shiny surfaces. One of the most unusual new ideas to come from the exhibit was the concept of an artist as a "designer", not necessarily as a "maker". During a forum conducted at the museum on the "New Sculpture", in
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participated, di Suvero famously remarked, "...my friend Donald Judd cannot qualify as an artist because he doesn't do the work", to which Judd replied, "...The point is not whether one makes the work or not... I don't see... why one technique is any more essentially art than another..." This show
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by artists from the
Northeast United States, California and Great Britain that shared general characteristics of scale, simplified geometry and smooth, often colorful, industrial surfaces. Its legacy, which focuses on a subset of the artists in the show, is as the exhibition that introduced
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In 1989, a major expansion and renovation project was undertaken at the museum. Upon completion in June 1993, the layout of the
Primary Structures show was done away with, and only a few installation shots of the show remain to record the original exhibit and the old galleries.
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McShine, in an effort to broaden appeal and show a wide variety of artists working in this form, included a West Coast contingent and most of the
British artists from the "New Generation" show at the
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ushered in a radical new way of presenting ideas and space that did not rely on the artist's hand, but rather on the final result.
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corner monument 4 for those who have been killed in ambush (for Jewish Museum) (for *P.K. who reminded me about death)
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from 1965. It appeared that
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Biennials and Beyond: Exhibitions that Made Art
History, 1962-2002
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This exhibit was a critical and media success as reported in
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Primary
Structures: Younger American and British Sculptors
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The Avant-Garde in Exhibition: New Art in the 20th century
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Other Primary Structures, Vol. 2 (reprint edition of 1966
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Primary Structures: Younger American and British Sculptors
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877:A Minimalist Future? Art as Object 1958-1968
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909:Minimalism: Art and Polemics of the Sixties
688:Hoffman, Jens; McShine, Kynaston (2014).
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864:(E.P Dutton & Co, Inc., 1968).
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961:Cultural history of New York City
862:Minimal Art: A Critical Anthology
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925:(Phaidon Press Limited, 2000).
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850:(Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1994).
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44:Minimal Art
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626:Space Jump
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310:Projection
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110:'s former
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286:Underpass
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228:Blue Disc
198:Gallery 1
163:Free Ride
143:Swing Low
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362:Nagas
328:Lever
303:Trace
170:Lobby
153:Titan
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