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Practitioners of this form of simplicity were heavily influenced by authors such as Henry David Thoreau, and tend to divest themselves of all in life but the meaningful. They enjoy purging clutter, and streamlining everything. These minimalists didn't even bother to show up and write a proper paragraph about themselves for this article. Bravo. ~~Insightfullysaid, 25 September 2011~~ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Insightfullysaid ( talk • contribs) 02:40, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
i'd say punk rock movement is also a minimalistic movement. tired of long instrumental solos boasting about the musicmanships, punk emerged as a movement based on minimalistic riffs eg. The Ramones. Muthuppattar ( talk) 16:46, 19 September 2010 (UTC)
I think the section Minimalism in Philosophy would be better titled Minimalism in Life or some such. Philosophical Minimalism refers to a similar view to deflationism, it has to do with reducing the burden of 'truth' on a sentence.
questions: where is the link between minimalism as a concept in art and stuff and 'minimalist philosophies'? what actually are these 'minimalist philosophies'? so, if the author feels that it is true that money is the general medium of things in this world, how come he criticises life depending on money as if that would be a matter of personal choice; just as if there could be philosophies that would freely chose this actual fact of socialisation as a random move to gain meaning?—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 84.44.169.181 ( talk • contribs) .
I find it quite disturbing how the Japanese philosophy of minimalism has not been discussed even though almost all miminalist art and design has been greatly influenced by traditional Japanese design.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Waynepl107 ( talk • contribs) .
I have now changed the title. If someone with a better english than mine could try to reformulate what's inside...
questions: where is the link between minimalism as a concept in art and stuff and 'minimalist philosophies'? Imomentt ( talk) 08:02, 5 March 2016 (UTC)
This page really needs to be split up into a disambiguation page for visual minimalism and musical minimalism. There is definitely enough info about both to require separate pages. Hyacinth
In agreement with Hyacinth, I believe that each subtopic in this article potentially contains more than enough depth to warrant splitting it up into multiple articles. Doing so may also lead to more in-depth development of each topic. C4Diesel 9:50, 14 Sep 2006 (UTC)
I've created a template feel free to add other important examples of postmodernism - broadly defined - in this template so that readers can gain a better understanding of the terms involved by comparing and contrasting their use over several articles. Stirling Newberry 17:29, 2 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Perhaps this quotation is relevant somewhere on the page? "Perfection is reached, not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away." –Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900–1944)
I think the question of whether Hemingway founded literary minimalism needs to be discussed. First, if you believe that Hemingway is the founder (I don't), you might look to Hemingway's antecedents as the founders of minimalsim: Gertrude Stein and Sherwood Anderson.
Second, Hemingway could arguably be called the founder of "hard-boiled" fiction, but I don't consider him a minimalist in the sense that minimalism is used to describe some schools of modern art. Hemingway used words sparingly, but his work wasn't formal or totally objective, as minimalism in art is.
I would like to remove the section on Hemingway, if no one has any objections. Griot 20:55, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
Since there are no objections, I'm removing Hemingway. Griot 00:05, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
I have read nearly everything Hemingway has written, including correspondence. I never connected him with minimalism. I still don't. However I see in a brief web search that this concept has taken root. Too sad... I think Hemingway was a big fan of economy and omission. How this got labeled minimalism is a sad story. The art of letters is in accelerated decline in the internet age. Mea ( talk) 05:29, 5 March 2013 (UTC)
I'm not advocating including Martin as a minimalist author, but I am seeking clarification. If anyone has read "Shopgirl" or "The Pleasure of my Company" I'd be interested in an opinion. I personally consider Martin's writing style minimalist because he doesn't label his characters; he merely presents them and lets the reader decide what they are. But the dialog is not necessarily simple. So does a richer dialog disqualify a work as minimalist.
-- The dialog, in this case, would likely eject him from the nomenclature as well as the fact that his presentation of characters, although somewhat novel, is by no means a typical minimalist technique, but rather one that eschews a normal sense of identity for reader interpretation. ( JetBlack11 ( talk) 20:52, 5 December 2007 (UTC))
It's good to see this back. While it needs lots of work, it shouldn't be deleted outright. I also cleaned up some red links and improper external links. If an artist doesn't have a page, they really shouldn't be listed, and definitely not linked to externally. Eva Hesse is not a post-minimalist. She died in 1970. She's more proto-minimalist, if such a term can be employed. At least she belongs to a whole field of post-abstract-expressionist sculpture of which I'm uncertain of a categorical name: somewhat minimalist, early postmodern, process art, something like that. Freshacconci 16:05, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
Eva Hesse is one of a few artists who led the move from Minimalism to Postminimalism. I remember her work in 1966 as moving past minimalism or through minimalism into various uncategorical forms - eccentric abstraction, anti-form sculpture, etc. Eva was a pioneer of what came to be known as Postminimalism. Modernist 00:19, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
And yet it makes mince meat of art history to list Hesse as a post-minimalist tout court. I agree w. freshacconci. Smithson's attitudes should be more prominently explored. Also, seriously lacking are the philosophical grounds for Fried's objection, encapsulated as theatricality, and the minimalists' [actually Stella's]related remark, what you see is what you see,,, and why this represents a paradigm shift away from Transcendence as an aesthetic first principle. Otherwise, this whole section makes little sense to me. Some of the artists listed do not strike me as minimalists--Hesse for one, but the inclusion of Hannah Wilke is mystifying. Actio 06:53, 11 February 2007 (UTC)actio
For what its worth - from a Robert Morris bio - " Robert Morris organized Nine at Castelli, (1969) one of the first exhibitions of post-minimalist, anti-formalist art which featured the work of Eva Hesse, Richard Serra, Keith Sonnier, and Bruce Nauman, among others". Modernist 19:34, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
I wrote a section on the early history of minimalism and how it developed, then realized that there was a separate page for Minimalist Music, and moved that material over there instead. I did, however, change the section on the controversiality of the term minimalism, deleting this sentence - "The minimalist movement in music bears only an occasional relationship to the movement of the same name in visual art" - because I can't imagine what it means. Seems to me, either it bears no relation - and how identical can any musical movement be with any visual art movement - or it bears some relation that could be critically argued, but remained pretty consistent over the time in question. Kylegann 14:52, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
I think it's important to mention La Monte Young at some point in this article. Many consider him the creator of minimalist music and he is certainly included in the 'four' along with Glass, Riley and Reich. In fact, Adams has a more peripheral influence on minimalism than Young. That he is not mentioned at all in this article whilst the others are is very unusual. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.108.205.80 ( talk) 11:22, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
Regarding John Cage: I feel it is an error to refer to him as a "prime example" of minimalism. His (Wikipedia) page itself does not refer to him as such but rather, among other things, as an avant-garde and chance composer. Certainly "chance" music is in many ways the opposite of minimalist music--4'33", for example, is not concerned with repetition at all, but the infintely complex relationship of sounds heard during "silence." Paulgraham.yates ( talk) 22:24, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
I know much more about minimalism in music and visual art than I do about minimalism in film. But I would not have called the movie Last Life in the Universe a minimalist movie. It has plot, character development, intrigue, and variety of mood, none of which I would associate with a minimalist aesthetic. By contrast, van Sant's Gerry or some of Warhol's films fit this label much better. 2006-11-03.
I recomend this section to be deleted. Just as there are no scholarly codifications of minimalism in film, there is no expert in the realm of "minimalist" film aesthetics. This is not a denial that some minimalist film style exists, but it has never been espoused in a scholarly manner in print of reliable sources. Therefore, the discussion of minimalism in film should be relegated to film forums and not wikipedia entries, as all such entries would be the result of personal research or speculation. 11-9-2006
A good article, and the first art-oriented article I have seen without external links! -- CliffC 02:18, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
Just noticed something that's been here a while - anybody know how to keep Nicole's picture from overlapping the {{ modernism}} template at the bottom of the page? -- CliffC 16:40, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
Many current artists feel their image should be here. Lets keep it to the movement and those of the period. -- Mach535 04:03, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
StN -- You are right insofar as I wouldn't consider Robert Rauschenberg a quintessential minimalist. But there are aspects of Rauschenberg's work that can be considered minimalist. He would not be considered a part of a minimalist school, or of a minimalist movement, but I can think of work I've seen by Rauschenberg that I would consider minimalist. I once saw a big retrospective at a big New York City museum of the work of Rauschenberg. My favorite paintings of the show were very early, and very large, silkscreen paintings, executed entirely in black. I think they were on a white background. The imagery was realistic -- mayby photo-lithographs. I would certainly think the descriptive term minimal could be applied to them. But you are right, I think, that Robert Rauschenberg would not be considered a minimalist. Bus stop 05:58, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
StN -- It seems Rauschenberg and Frank Stella both went from a more constrained method of expression, to expression that took place with greater exuberance. They also both seemed to go from two dimensional work to three dimensional work. I am not sure if that is a gain or a loss. Bus stop 17:58, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
What about J.M. Coetzee? No modern writer fits the description better imo.
F. Simon Grant 20:23, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
At the same time, wouldn't you posit that haiku is in itself a form with a finite length, which is not minimalist, per se. Especially in the musical realm, the point was not to write short pieces (Reich and Glass compose operas, they each have any number of pieces that slowly develop over 10+ minute periods) but the length and choice of materials is completely deliberate rather than the pre-determined length of haiku.
I totally agree however that Palahniuk, while I am a fan of his work, is in no way a minimalist and he should be removed.
( JetBlack11 ( talk) 20:58, 5 December 2007 (UTC))
Palahniuk is in no way whatsoever a minimalist. Nor is Easton Ellis. -- Kbrewer36 ( talk) 04:10, 8 April 2010 (UTC)
Though I've been thinking this, and argument could be made for *Less than Zero* as Minimalist or as a response to it, certainly. -- Kbrewer36 ( talk) 20:27, 19 April 2010 (UTC)
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Why is there no information on minimalist cooking?
(Asked because I came to this page to try and prove to my girlfriend that adding tonnes of every spice in the cabinet doesn't lead to good food -- just indigestion and rectal discomfort. 75.37.199.71 ( talk) 19:07, 11 October 2008 (UTC)
I am wondering do we need to put "copyright" tags on numerous images of minimalism since many of them don't meet threshold of originality? -- Artman40 ( talk) 12:22, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
Sex/ Is Angin. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.155.72.35 ( talk) 14:17, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
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I think that the article tries to cover too much. There might be separate pages for minimalism in literature, in music, in cooking, and so on.-- Kbrewer36 ( talk) 20:29, 19 April 2010 (UTC)
The article cites the influence of Japanese design. Take a look at Japanese architecture, theater, and cooking. If you have a feel or appreciation for minimalism, you should be able to sense the commonality. I haven't read one objection that makes sense to me in this talk for the single article. Why spread the critical pain across multiple articles? Mea ( talk) 04:49, 5 March 2013 (UTC)
With regards to the above unsourced idea written in the article and used here as this section's heading, I would like to object to its veracity. It seems to mean that those who add details in quantity lack quality in each detail, whereas every minimalist detail is of a higher quality than what can be found elsewhere. This is plainly not true, as for thousands of years, there have been craftsmen who have made high-quality detailing that was used again and again on a structure. And there are minimalist structures that lack any appreciable quality. -- Riction ( talk) 14:19, 23 May 2010 (UTC)
The commonly accepted concept of minimalism implies an intentional goal of creating a minimalist tableau. You cannot merely choose any object that has a lack of complication and lack of quality materials and declare it minimalist. I don't believe there is such a thing as a "minimalist detail." Minimalism usually refers to the overall effect of a given composition. Mea ( talk) 04:39, 5 March 2013 (UTC)
I think there is a rough consensus here that the material on minimalism-like-what-judd-did ought be pulled out into a separate page; I intend to do this in a few days unless anyone has a strong objection? Pho-logic ( talk) 09:29, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
Splitting is an anti-minimalist direction. Less is more. Mea ( talk) 05:05, 5 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi everyone, I have included this image of a facade of a building in Pretoria, South Africa which has a minimalist architectural design. Some users however do not allow it to be included in the article. Please share your views. Thank you. -- PretoriaTravel ( talk) 12:10, 22 August 2012 (UTC)
I've removed a portion of the lede where it said "to achieve the maximum effect". First, that portion was unsourced, as is basically the whole lede. Second, I don't think any reliable source would really assert that the effect of minimalism is the highest above all other arts and styles. GreyWinterOwl ( talk) 18:21, 19 November 2013 (UTC)
Why are their two architecture sections? What is the basis for the ordering of the sections (historical, conceptual, what)? Why are there full unsourced paragraphs, and long lists of names, also unsourced? Why are their multiple citation styles, with whole paragraphs making reference to sources only in the most literary style (sans footnotes) while in most places, inline citations lead reader to source? The article may have, at one point, been encyclopedic, but in its structure, formats, content, and sourcing, it most certainly is not now. 73.211.138.148 ( talk) 21:35, 10 August 2016 (UTC)
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This article doesn't show enough about minimalist lifestyles which are becoming increasingly common. – Craig Davison ( talk) 14:56, 18 April 2018 (UTC)
How can minimalism be both part of Japanese traditions and have started after WW2?
And also, both Zen and Minimalism originated from Taoism in China 2500 years ago, and yet there is no mention of it in the article.
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Practitioners of this form of simplicity were heavily influenced by authors such as Henry David Thoreau, and tend to divest themselves of all in life but the meaningful. They enjoy purging clutter, and streamlining everything. These minimalists didn't even bother to show up and write a proper paragraph about themselves for this article. Bravo. ~~Insightfullysaid, 25 September 2011~~ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Insightfullysaid ( talk • contribs) 02:40, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
i'd say punk rock movement is also a minimalistic movement. tired of long instrumental solos boasting about the musicmanships, punk emerged as a movement based on minimalistic riffs eg. The Ramones. Muthuppattar ( talk) 16:46, 19 September 2010 (UTC)
I think the section Minimalism in Philosophy would be better titled Minimalism in Life or some such. Philosophical Minimalism refers to a similar view to deflationism, it has to do with reducing the burden of 'truth' on a sentence.
questions: where is the link between minimalism as a concept in art and stuff and 'minimalist philosophies'? what actually are these 'minimalist philosophies'? so, if the author feels that it is true that money is the general medium of things in this world, how come he criticises life depending on money as if that would be a matter of personal choice; just as if there could be philosophies that would freely chose this actual fact of socialisation as a random move to gain meaning?—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 84.44.169.181 ( talk • contribs) .
I find it quite disturbing how the Japanese philosophy of minimalism has not been discussed even though almost all miminalist art and design has been greatly influenced by traditional Japanese design.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Waynepl107 ( talk • contribs) .
I have now changed the title. If someone with a better english than mine could try to reformulate what's inside...
questions: where is the link between minimalism as a concept in art and stuff and 'minimalist philosophies'? Imomentt ( talk) 08:02, 5 March 2016 (UTC)
This page really needs to be split up into a disambiguation page for visual minimalism and musical minimalism. There is definitely enough info about both to require separate pages. Hyacinth
In agreement with Hyacinth, I believe that each subtopic in this article potentially contains more than enough depth to warrant splitting it up into multiple articles. Doing so may also lead to more in-depth development of each topic. C4Diesel 9:50, 14 Sep 2006 (UTC)
I've created a template feel free to add other important examples of postmodernism - broadly defined - in this template so that readers can gain a better understanding of the terms involved by comparing and contrasting their use over several articles. Stirling Newberry 17:29, 2 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Perhaps this quotation is relevant somewhere on the page? "Perfection is reached, not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away." –Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900–1944)
I think the question of whether Hemingway founded literary minimalism needs to be discussed. First, if you believe that Hemingway is the founder (I don't), you might look to Hemingway's antecedents as the founders of minimalsim: Gertrude Stein and Sherwood Anderson.
Second, Hemingway could arguably be called the founder of "hard-boiled" fiction, but I don't consider him a minimalist in the sense that minimalism is used to describe some schools of modern art. Hemingway used words sparingly, but his work wasn't formal or totally objective, as minimalism in art is.
I would like to remove the section on Hemingway, if no one has any objections. Griot 20:55, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
Since there are no objections, I'm removing Hemingway. Griot 00:05, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
I have read nearly everything Hemingway has written, including correspondence. I never connected him with minimalism. I still don't. However I see in a brief web search that this concept has taken root. Too sad... I think Hemingway was a big fan of economy and omission. How this got labeled minimalism is a sad story. The art of letters is in accelerated decline in the internet age. Mea ( talk) 05:29, 5 March 2013 (UTC)
I'm not advocating including Martin as a minimalist author, but I am seeking clarification. If anyone has read "Shopgirl" or "The Pleasure of my Company" I'd be interested in an opinion. I personally consider Martin's writing style minimalist because he doesn't label his characters; he merely presents them and lets the reader decide what they are. But the dialog is not necessarily simple. So does a richer dialog disqualify a work as minimalist.
-- The dialog, in this case, would likely eject him from the nomenclature as well as the fact that his presentation of characters, although somewhat novel, is by no means a typical minimalist technique, but rather one that eschews a normal sense of identity for reader interpretation. ( JetBlack11 ( talk) 20:52, 5 December 2007 (UTC))
It's good to see this back. While it needs lots of work, it shouldn't be deleted outright. I also cleaned up some red links and improper external links. If an artist doesn't have a page, they really shouldn't be listed, and definitely not linked to externally. Eva Hesse is not a post-minimalist. She died in 1970. She's more proto-minimalist, if such a term can be employed. At least she belongs to a whole field of post-abstract-expressionist sculpture of which I'm uncertain of a categorical name: somewhat minimalist, early postmodern, process art, something like that. Freshacconci 16:05, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
Eva Hesse is one of a few artists who led the move from Minimalism to Postminimalism. I remember her work in 1966 as moving past minimalism or through minimalism into various uncategorical forms - eccentric abstraction, anti-form sculpture, etc. Eva was a pioneer of what came to be known as Postminimalism. Modernist 00:19, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
And yet it makes mince meat of art history to list Hesse as a post-minimalist tout court. I agree w. freshacconci. Smithson's attitudes should be more prominently explored. Also, seriously lacking are the philosophical grounds for Fried's objection, encapsulated as theatricality, and the minimalists' [actually Stella's]related remark, what you see is what you see,,, and why this represents a paradigm shift away from Transcendence as an aesthetic first principle. Otherwise, this whole section makes little sense to me. Some of the artists listed do not strike me as minimalists--Hesse for one, but the inclusion of Hannah Wilke is mystifying. Actio 06:53, 11 February 2007 (UTC)actio
For what its worth - from a Robert Morris bio - " Robert Morris organized Nine at Castelli, (1969) one of the first exhibitions of post-minimalist, anti-formalist art which featured the work of Eva Hesse, Richard Serra, Keith Sonnier, and Bruce Nauman, among others". Modernist 19:34, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
I wrote a section on the early history of minimalism and how it developed, then realized that there was a separate page for Minimalist Music, and moved that material over there instead. I did, however, change the section on the controversiality of the term minimalism, deleting this sentence - "The minimalist movement in music bears only an occasional relationship to the movement of the same name in visual art" - because I can't imagine what it means. Seems to me, either it bears no relation - and how identical can any musical movement be with any visual art movement - or it bears some relation that could be critically argued, but remained pretty consistent over the time in question. Kylegann 14:52, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
I think it's important to mention La Monte Young at some point in this article. Many consider him the creator of minimalist music and he is certainly included in the 'four' along with Glass, Riley and Reich. In fact, Adams has a more peripheral influence on minimalism than Young. That he is not mentioned at all in this article whilst the others are is very unusual. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.108.205.80 ( talk) 11:22, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
Regarding John Cage: I feel it is an error to refer to him as a "prime example" of minimalism. His (Wikipedia) page itself does not refer to him as such but rather, among other things, as an avant-garde and chance composer. Certainly "chance" music is in many ways the opposite of minimalist music--4'33", for example, is not concerned with repetition at all, but the infintely complex relationship of sounds heard during "silence." Paulgraham.yates ( talk) 22:24, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
I know much more about minimalism in music and visual art than I do about minimalism in film. But I would not have called the movie Last Life in the Universe a minimalist movie. It has plot, character development, intrigue, and variety of mood, none of which I would associate with a minimalist aesthetic. By contrast, van Sant's Gerry or some of Warhol's films fit this label much better. 2006-11-03.
I recomend this section to be deleted. Just as there are no scholarly codifications of minimalism in film, there is no expert in the realm of "minimalist" film aesthetics. This is not a denial that some minimalist film style exists, but it has never been espoused in a scholarly manner in print of reliable sources. Therefore, the discussion of minimalism in film should be relegated to film forums and not wikipedia entries, as all such entries would be the result of personal research or speculation. 11-9-2006
A good article, and the first art-oriented article I have seen without external links! -- CliffC 02:18, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
Just noticed something that's been here a while - anybody know how to keep Nicole's picture from overlapping the {{ modernism}} template at the bottom of the page? -- CliffC 16:40, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
Many current artists feel their image should be here. Lets keep it to the movement and those of the period. -- Mach535 04:03, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
StN -- You are right insofar as I wouldn't consider Robert Rauschenberg a quintessential minimalist. But there are aspects of Rauschenberg's work that can be considered minimalist. He would not be considered a part of a minimalist school, or of a minimalist movement, but I can think of work I've seen by Rauschenberg that I would consider minimalist. I once saw a big retrospective at a big New York City museum of the work of Rauschenberg. My favorite paintings of the show were very early, and very large, silkscreen paintings, executed entirely in black. I think they were on a white background. The imagery was realistic -- mayby photo-lithographs. I would certainly think the descriptive term minimal could be applied to them. But you are right, I think, that Robert Rauschenberg would not be considered a minimalist. Bus stop 05:58, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
StN -- It seems Rauschenberg and Frank Stella both went from a more constrained method of expression, to expression that took place with greater exuberance. They also both seemed to go from two dimensional work to three dimensional work. I am not sure if that is a gain or a loss. Bus stop 17:58, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
What about J.M. Coetzee? No modern writer fits the description better imo.
F. Simon Grant 20:23, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
At the same time, wouldn't you posit that haiku is in itself a form with a finite length, which is not minimalist, per se. Especially in the musical realm, the point was not to write short pieces (Reich and Glass compose operas, they each have any number of pieces that slowly develop over 10+ minute periods) but the length and choice of materials is completely deliberate rather than the pre-determined length of haiku.
I totally agree however that Palahniuk, while I am a fan of his work, is in no way a minimalist and he should be removed.
( JetBlack11 ( talk) 20:58, 5 December 2007 (UTC))
Palahniuk is in no way whatsoever a minimalist. Nor is Easton Ellis. -- Kbrewer36 ( talk) 04:10, 8 April 2010 (UTC)
Though I've been thinking this, and argument could be made for *Less than Zero* as Minimalist or as a response to it, certainly. -- Kbrewer36 ( talk) 20:27, 19 April 2010 (UTC)
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Why is there no information on minimalist cooking?
(Asked because I came to this page to try and prove to my girlfriend that adding tonnes of every spice in the cabinet doesn't lead to good food -- just indigestion and rectal discomfort. 75.37.199.71 ( talk) 19:07, 11 October 2008 (UTC)
I am wondering do we need to put "copyright" tags on numerous images of minimalism since many of them don't meet threshold of originality? -- Artman40 ( talk) 12:22, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
Sex/ Is Angin. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.155.72.35 ( talk) 14:17, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
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I think that the article tries to cover too much. There might be separate pages for minimalism in literature, in music, in cooking, and so on.-- Kbrewer36 ( talk) 20:29, 19 April 2010 (UTC)
The article cites the influence of Japanese design. Take a look at Japanese architecture, theater, and cooking. If you have a feel or appreciation for minimalism, you should be able to sense the commonality. I haven't read one objection that makes sense to me in this talk for the single article. Why spread the critical pain across multiple articles? Mea ( talk) 04:49, 5 March 2013 (UTC)
With regards to the above unsourced idea written in the article and used here as this section's heading, I would like to object to its veracity. It seems to mean that those who add details in quantity lack quality in each detail, whereas every minimalist detail is of a higher quality than what can be found elsewhere. This is plainly not true, as for thousands of years, there have been craftsmen who have made high-quality detailing that was used again and again on a structure. And there are minimalist structures that lack any appreciable quality. -- Riction ( talk) 14:19, 23 May 2010 (UTC)
The commonly accepted concept of minimalism implies an intentional goal of creating a minimalist tableau. You cannot merely choose any object that has a lack of complication and lack of quality materials and declare it minimalist. I don't believe there is such a thing as a "minimalist detail." Minimalism usually refers to the overall effect of a given composition. Mea ( talk) 04:39, 5 March 2013 (UTC)
I think there is a rough consensus here that the material on minimalism-like-what-judd-did ought be pulled out into a separate page; I intend to do this in a few days unless anyone has a strong objection? Pho-logic ( talk) 09:29, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
Splitting is an anti-minimalist direction. Less is more. Mea ( talk) 05:05, 5 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi everyone, I have included this image of a facade of a building in Pretoria, South Africa which has a minimalist architectural design. Some users however do not allow it to be included in the article. Please share your views. Thank you. -- PretoriaTravel ( talk) 12:10, 22 August 2012 (UTC)
I've removed a portion of the lede where it said "to achieve the maximum effect". First, that portion was unsourced, as is basically the whole lede. Second, I don't think any reliable source would really assert that the effect of minimalism is the highest above all other arts and styles. GreyWinterOwl ( talk) 18:21, 19 November 2013 (UTC)
Why are their two architecture sections? What is the basis for the ordering of the sections (historical, conceptual, what)? Why are there full unsourced paragraphs, and long lists of names, also unsourced? Why are their multiple citation styles, with whole paragraphs making reference to sources only in the most literary style (sans footnotes) while in most places, inline citations lead reader to source? The article may have, at one point, been encyclopedic, but in its structure, formats, content, and sourcing, it most certainly is not now. 73.211.138.148 ( talk) 21:35, 10 August 2016 (UTC)
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This article doesn't show enough about minimalist lifestyles which are becoming increasingly common. – Craig Davison ( talk) 14:56, 18 April 2018 (UTC)
How can minimalism be both part of Japanese traditions and have started after WW2?
And also, both Zen and Minimalism originated from Taoism in China 2500 years ago, and yet there is no mention of it in the article.
Barbar03 ( talk) 00:01, 21 June 2019 (UTC)