MINIMALISM

James Meyer is a writer and art historian who has been teaching contemporary art and critical theory at Emory University in Atlanta since 1994. He is a noted specialist and lecturer in Minimal art, American art of the 1960s and contemporary forms of institutional critique. Meyer has written extensively on the Minimal artists, including publications on Carl Andre, Donald Judd, Dan Flavin, Sol LeWitt and Jo Baer his recent exhibition catalogues have focused on Mel Bouchner and Ellsworth Kelly, as well as Mark Dion, Christian Philipp Mller, Andrea Fraser and Rene Green. His publications include `The Writing of Art and Objecthood in Refracting Vision: A Critical Anthology on the Writings of Michael Fried` (Power Institute of Fine Arts, University of Sydney, 2000) and `Minimalism: Art and Polemics in the Sixties` (Yale University Press, 2001).