MINIMALISM

The idea of doing more with less was so persuasive that, once Minimalism was articulated in the late 1960s (first by whom remains a question of dispute), it conquered not only the arts but arts writing. The term particularly refers to work with a usually low degree of differentiation, which is to say a monochromic (or nearly monochromic) canvas or a piece of music composed with only a few notes, ideally to suggest, at times by critical inference, meanings that would...