How To Use Minimalism In A Sentence
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The center console is neat and simple, stressing a less-is-more minimalism.
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You could call the music post-rock, even minimalism.
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The 15 spaces have only their fierce commitment to individuality (and, of course, their amenities) in common, ranging in style from slick minimalism to full-on kitsch.
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That was seven years ago, when minimalism, simplicity and modernity were prized.
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She was an artist ahead of her time, a modernist who used minimalism and anticipated the reductivism of the 1970s.
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ULABY: Those movements ranged from minimalism and conceptualism to the current handcrafting trend.
Artist Louise Bourgeois Dies At 98
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For something truly modern, Swedish minimalism is just the ticket.
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Both are catalogues accompanying major exhibitions of Minimalism and Geometric Abstraction in the postwar period.
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Smoothly steering between R&B and Eurodance, she's breathily seductive on Motivation – by contrast, guest Lil Wayne is positively anaemic – while I'm Dat Chick updates the jumpy minimalism of Destiny's Child's No, No, No.
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Nor is it merely the fact that they are swimming against the tide of Modernism with its utopian sense of inevitability and its flagship aesthetic of reductive minimalism.
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One can never forget how much he rejected or ignored during the years spanned by this collection, from Pop art and Minimalism to photo-based art and appropriation decades later.
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Styles as varied as Pop art, minimalism and even performance art embrace the still life style.
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American minimalism has now been around long enough to have produced its own bona fide classics.
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The examples bear witness to the beginnings of a reductionist period for the Spanish artist, during which earlier complex works gave way to minimalism.
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This sixth solo album is entirely acoustic with a string quartet central to the sound and classical minimalism and folk music the key influences.
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I proceed down the stairs where neatly stacked frou-frou stilettos and sturdy Dr Marten boots sit on each step, past the well-stocked wine cellar and into the chic rustic minimalism of the kitchen.
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Minimalism fiction stripped to verbal basics, shunning flourish and style, and McGurl's alternative category of miniaturism, are not so much genuine artistic movements as system grotesqueries imitating theory, creative writing's opposite ravenous beast.
Anis Shivani: Can Writing Be Taught? The Systems-Theory Rationalizations Of An Insider
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The key issue of this week's Paris shows is simple: will Paris, having fastened its grey, navy and camel colours to the mast of minimalism six months ago, stand its ground in the wake of the onslaught of exuberant 70s maximalism and technicolour seen so far in NY, London and Milan?
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This founding program was based on the need to avoid the minimalism of the Social Democracy and the kind of maximalism that the CP during its "third period" adhered to.
Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist
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The recording tastefully marries the cool dubby minimalism and precision of Berlin tech-house with a warm, soulful sensuality that, to some presumable degree, one might attribute to his Buenos Aires roots.
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I think it an attempt to contain lushness in minimalism, something resounding loudly in Woff's new piece (yes, I will blog about it).
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With its range of tonalities and mobilities, Niedecker's work explodes the standard cliches of minimalism as quiet or modest.
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Koons's celebrated Rabbit - sometimes nicknamed the Brancusi Bunny - is not simply a parody of kitsch, Brancusi, and minimalism.
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Using the self-effacing formal devices associated with conceptualism and minimalism, Piper interrogates the subjective effacement of the racial stereotype.
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The reductive austerities of Minimalism were followed by a wide range of art movements that brought the body forcefully back into art - although not by the standard mimetic means.
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Typical of Beckett's later preoccupation with the art of minimalism, this performance cuts the story down to the bare essentials.
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Minimalism allows us to generate a minimal truth condition for any meaningful indicative sentence, such as ‘Lying is wrong’ is true iff lying is wrong.
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In terms of overall style, minimalism is out this year.
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While graphic letterforms and type effects were happening, a new minimalism was spawned as well.
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More importantly, the art shown in ‘Minimalia’ bears little trace of the will to depersonalization and the tendentiousness often detected in American Minimalism and Conceptualism.
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Here, the master of cool minimalism was in the mood to experiment with froth.
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Both are catalogues accompanying major exhibitions of Minimalism and Geometric Abstraction in the postwar period.
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Tenured composition faculty, even when they are receptive to postminimalist students, are unlikely to have much depth in minimalism and postminimalism.
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There, Hal Glicksman, a pioneering curator of Light and Space art, and Helene Winer, later the director of Artists Space and Metro Pictures in New York, curated landmark exhibitions by young local artists who bridged the gap between Conceptual art and postminimalism, and presaged the development of postmodernism in the later 1970s.
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Pan American takes the pound cake for minimalism, and has in the past proven perfect music for driving through desolate landscapes beneath withering heat, or traversing the domain of half-asleepness.
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Then in 1971 he dropped modernism and embraced the simplicities of medieval church music - at just the same time as Steve Reich and Philip Glass in New York were discovering repetitive minimalism.
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It uses ingredients of Javanese Gamelan drumming, Philip Glass-style minimalism and wind up music boxes with spinning ballerinas.
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As interiors editor of The Times Magazine, Lee is in a better position than most to monitor trends in interiors and is now predicting a move away from minimalism and industrial design to the return of colour in all its glory.
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Their music was a rainbow of sounds and songs drawn from gamelan to pop, via jazz and Terry Riley's minimalism.
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Deeton's new works might be described as reductive minimalism for those who don't like reductive minimalism.
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The terms "maximalism" and "minimalism" are used with great regularity in biblical studies
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This week's festival with the piano-playing Labèque sisters at London's Kings Place invites us to listen to music from John Cage to Steve Reich, Glenn Branca to Brian Eno, Michael Nyman who first coined the term "minimalism" in 1968 to the Who, and hear the cross-cultural connections.
Minimalism at 50: how less became more
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In this same interview, Andre analyzes the politics of Minimalism: ‘My art will reflect not necessarily conscious politics but the unanalyzed politics of my life.’
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It's fascinating that text is such a visible genre within art because, perhaps a little like decorative minimalism, it seems to exist on the periphery, but where this particular art fair is concerned, more is better.
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In Mr. Salonen’s Floof, a setting of a text by the Polish science-fiction writer Stanislaw Lem about an android that teaches itself to write love poetry using the jargon of higher math instead of the language of hearts and bodies, Ms. Arnold effortlessly alternated between lucid coloratura vocalism and the roughest, most guttural sounds; conductor Jeffrey Milarsky and the Miller musicians drove home Mr. Salonen’s punchy, rugged brand of postminimalism with assurance and aplomb.
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The film combines anecdotal minimalism with extremely careful attention to the image and the actors - with a single exception, all non-professional.
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A Thing Is A Hole In A Thing It Is Not (until 3 May) the work examines the history of minimalist art and includes the re-enactment of a 1964 interview with Donald Judd, Dan Flavin and Frank Stella who came together to explain their ideas before the term minimalism had come to define a movement.
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Dense hangs are out of fashion, and when it comes to fashionable interior decoration, minimalism tends to be the order of the day.
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The first record was an exercise in minimalism (it got me out of my evil, trippy electro phase), and the second was total maximalism, like me trying to out-Queen Queen.
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Until, that is, the advent of Minimalism, an ethos so certain of its rightness, both aesthetic and historic, that it stands in the causeway of late 20th-century art as the most intractable of obstacles.
A Minimalist Artist With a Modernist Bent
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It was an extreme act of art that became foundational — inaugurating a shift in style from American abstract painting and Pop to post-Minimalism, conceptual and performance art — without ever losing its extremeness.
Summary of '69
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By closely reading the famous poem "The Star" by Jane Taylor, this essay delineates some of the poetic forms involved in the inscription of environmental awareness, such as minimalism, and the foregrounding of what in structuralism is called the "contact" or medium of communication.
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Rainer encountered problems in attempting to translate the ‘literalness’ attributed to painterly and sculptural minimalism to live performance.
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Sasha Sykes's country-inspired contemporary furniture is the perfect choice for anyone put off by the unwelcoming minimalism of most modern design.
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In her own home, she replaced austere minimalism with cosy warmth and colour.
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When I was there they were very much into minimalism, and they felt that figurative work was illustration, not art.
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I knew the definitions, but I didn’t know if polysemantic/associative objects were a particular style of sculpture like Minimalism.
Regretsy – Bird on a Wire
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There are several easily identifiable influences here, such as krautrock, minimalism, Eno, and Earth, but Expo '70 manages to forge a unique sound rooted in endless mantra-like repetition, clarity, and seemingly inhuman patience.
Brainwashed
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I'm sure you've heard the word "minimalism" in terms of music.
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As the chopped and screwed hook stutters along over jacked-straight-from-Inglish minimalism, whispers of "biter" enter the mind.
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As an example of minimalism to the extreme, Hanson used only a cluttered desk and a divan to suggest Higgins' study.
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They move effortlessly from the punky thrash of "Brothers And Sisters" to delicate minimalism in "Love Is Back."
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The minimalism is intense, but the house does avail itself of one of the chief benefits of underground construction — insulation — and the rooms are, visitors say, quite cozy.
Seoul Gains An Underground House by Byoung Soo Cho | Inhabitat
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Atonality isn't exactly setting the world on fire these days, what with all these whippersnappers and their feel-good postminimalism.
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Although minimalism is a style that Yau's restaurants have now rejected, he is still thinking hard in Pawson terms about the social dynamics of the space in which he puts people to eat.
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See, our mums and dads worked with the legacy of minimalism and conceptualism, their hold on the ‘presentness’ of the work, we are, by distinction, children of ‘the moment’.
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Tropicália apparently also formed a Brazilian hinge with the international tendency known in the late '60s as postminimalism.
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Team with wildly clashing prints or opt for sleek minimalism.
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So here's today's exercise in prognostication: what will be the visual artistic style that history will glue to the current era of new music, post-minimalism, non-pop, the new eclecticism, whatever you want to call it?
Take a picture, sweetie; I ain't got time to waste
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Tate cites influences on Gallagher's work ranging from bebop to hip hop, from abstract expressionism to minimalism to the postmodern, and identity-based art of the recent decade or so.
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Baker's music was also a study in minimalism and good taste.
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This is a work for which 'ground-breaking' really is the mot juste, yet although it has earned Reich the title 'founding father of minimalism', he himself regards it as leaving minimalism far behind.
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he despised the esthetic of minimalism
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The score is also unified by using a minimalist technique, resulting in what Martynov calls syncretic minimalism.
Undefined
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In this same interview, Andre analyzes the politics of Minimalism: ‘My art will reflect not necessarily conscious politics but the unanalyzed politics of my life.’
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Since the late '70s, Adrian Piper's art practice has deliberately melded the forms of '60s conceptualism and minimalism with identity based subject matter.
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Mnml" (where did the vowel-less spelling originate, anyway?) may have initially been intended to indicate a certain strain of techno that favored staccato, whittled-down sounds and a general refusal of melody or songform, but as a variety of approaches inspired by minimalism coalesced into a series of tropes, and those tropes themselves came to signify "mnml," the term largely became severed from its original, literal meaning, as though through a process of substition.
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Premiered in Berlin in 2005, the work is a flirtation with minimalism, or at least with the technique of motoric repetition in overlapping cycles or phases.
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Work with the sleek minimalism.
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And after a long dry season of neutrals and minimalism, perhaps fantasy fashion is a good thing.
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But there is a growing trend for more modern designs - although minimalism is still not a hit.
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A favorite of the great Czech conductor Rafael Kubelik, St Wenceslas prefigures late twentieth century minimalism with its repetitive chorale theme and luminous string figurations.
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Her country-inspired contemporary furniture is the perfect choice for anyone put off by the unwelcoming minimalism of most modern design.
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Such music has the most traction when an emotional narrative is layered on top of it, as in opera — minimalism proved well-suited to the genre, and Wozzeck, for example, never seems to fall victim to the alleged serialist box-office curse.
Archive 2008-03-01
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Stanley's poetry is always lush, frequently visionary, and sometimes sublime: It lights upon existential nanoseconds without affixing itself so doggedly to any one natural phenomenon that the presence and significance of the human is diminished a claim sometimes leveled against younger poets working in the New Minimalism, a kissing cousin of Slow Poetry.
Seth Abramson: November 2011 Contemporary Poetry Reviews
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In its pages, Krauss and her colleagues reformulated the critical program of Minimalism in the language of French structuralism.
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The project is based primarily on improvisation and utilising ‘found sounds' and explores aspects of both minimalism and maximalism.
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The headliner for the Irving Plaza shows was Tortoise, an instrumental band that dips into minimalism, lounge music, jazz and rock.
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I've always been interested in minimalism -- visual or sonic.
Sound artist Richard Chartier to perform at the Hirshhorn tonight
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The time has come to think beyond the divides of Pop and Minimalism, of Dada and abstraction, and of avant-garde and modernism.
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Alexander Girard splashed the gray face of postwar minimalism with a riot of color and infused modernist intellectual design with the giddy warmth of folk art.
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Violently colourful, happily high-of-hem and unrepentantly patterned, it's as if minimalism never happened.
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The impulse for any composer who uses minimalism as a style today – whether you're Thom Yorke or Nico Muhly – is the diametrical opposite of what Reich and Riley were up to half a century ago.
Minimalism at 50: how less became more
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There is a definite move away from minimalism with even plain white delph adorned by texture, French antique finishes and softer lines.
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Minimalism won't suit those of us who like to sleep with fluffy toys or wear floral winceyette nighties.
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So for a few months over summer, both minimalism and maximalism will fight it out, while the three museums contemplate their next architectural project and its cultural implications.
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What then is the difference between Minimalism and other expressions of the reductive sensibility?
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A very elegant boardroom, it's style a blend of old fashioned Victorian design, and modern minimalism.
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The luxe look of the past 20 years has been minimalism, but it is ruthlessly disciplined and fiendishly expensive to achieve.
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The time has come to think beyond the divides of Pop and Minimalism, of Dada and abstraction, and of avant-garde and modernism.
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Décor is a blend of minimalism, contemporary design and largely neutral shades with added dashes of colour.
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When I was there they were very much into minimalism, and they felt that figurative work was illustration, not art.
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Hardly a week goes by that I don't see another variation on the "serialism is to blame for classical's marginalization" trope, but I could just as easily argue that said marginalization correlates nicely with both the abandonment of experimental modernism and the domestication of radical minimalism.
Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it
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This can be seen as a direct reaction to the minimalism which was the prevailing style of the time and in which he had begun his career.
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Originally a motel, the San José is not expensive, but it has a design integrity that incorporates timber furniture with modern minimalism.
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Joel Shapiro is best known for humanizing the cold, impersonal forms of Minimalism.
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The Lithuanian auteur has long been known, if not exactly loved, for a kind of rarified ultra-minimalism - long takes in grainy B
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The text and imagery includes working models of living spaces that should give casualties of minimalism the confidence to decorate with more rather than less.
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The Boscolo Hotel Exedra is a pleasant mixture of chic minimalism and old-fashioned high style - just the place for those who have become accustomed to the good things in life and do not mind paying for this kind of luxury.
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With its range of tonalities and mobilities, Niedecker's work explodes the standard cliches of minimalism as quiet or modest.
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The key issue of this week's Paris shows is simple: will Paris, having fastened its grey, navy and camel colours to the mast of minimalism six months ago, stand its ground in the wake of the onslaught of exuberant 70s maximalism and technicolour seen so far in NY, London and Milan?
Fashion week live blog
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And his visual style is a triumph of minimalism, his camera typically positioned about three feet above the ground and rarely (in some films never) moving.
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None of them, it is worth pointing out, has ever fully embraced the term "minimalism", and the seeds of how differently the minimalist impulse would be taken up by later composers are already there in the huge aesthetic and temperamental gulfs that separate Riley's music from Reich's, or Glass's from Young's.
Minimalism at 50: how less became more
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Its energetic program of 33 exhibitions per year, including the annual show of the Chalupecky Prize winner, focuses on minimalism, conceptualism and emerging artists.
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Consisting of a flat-topped prismatic structure supported by a braced tube that encloses walls almost totally of glass, 21 Century Tower is a brilliant exercise in minimalism.
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The instantly catchy tunes and clever songs were fused with an original and complimentary production, a bare-bones acoustic minimalism, all played on 10 steel strings and a single snare drum.
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His Fulham Road flagship store hosted exhibitions by designers of artefacts of baroque complexity as often as it did the great exponents of minimalism.
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Has minimalism been usurped by upfront decoration and a rash of colourful swirls, florals and geometrics, or is less still more?
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Heard carelessly, this sound/music may not impress, its apparent minimalism striking the listener as overly reductive.
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Giving us her unique brand of decorative minimalism, she was at her chic, subtle peak.
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This plush velvet theatre is far more suited to comedy than the modern minimalism of the Barbican Centre but that is not to say it is ideal for a regular comedy club night.
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The reasons given for this, if they are given, may be in relation to their particular forms and stylistic qualities, or it may be due to their relative absence, being influenced by a kind of functionalism and minimalism.
Continuity, Beauty and Dignity within the Liturgical Arts and their Development
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Even John Adams, the transatlantic dean of minimalism, is at heart a maximalist, if the hectic massiness of his own essay in metaphysical erotics, Harmonium, is a guide.
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Artists were engaged in such varied practices as minimalism, Earthworks, Photo-realism, conceptual art, performance art, and feminist art.
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At one extreme, Carver is classified as the exemplar of minimalism.
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Claiming to have been hugely into minimalism and avant-garde music by the time he hit high school, Jim O'Rourke's stock took a blow in the credibility department with me.
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It was Maryann Burk Carver who won the bread in those early years while Ray drank, fished, went to school and began writing the stories that a generation of critics and teachers would miscategorize as "minimalism" or "dirty realism.
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Celebrating Trisha Brown, LondonIts 40 years since Brown formed her own company, developing a repertory that elaborated her early experiments in minimalism to dance structures of scrupulous intricacy and beauty.
This week's new dance
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Inside, however, modernity and luxurious minimalism take over.
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To which all he can reply is, ‘True enough’ - adding to such humble minimalism only a protest that still, the leadership does have excessive faith in neo-liberal ideology.
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Susan likes to cook, so the kitchen is a focal point in the house, with a warm colour scheme of Burmese ruby combined with honey cream to offset the minimalism.
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Though their career amounted to a mere brace of albums, their minimalism and repetition shaped contemporary electronic and ambient music.
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‘China Modern’ shows design from Taoist simplicity and sleek urban minimalism to modern reworkings of Chinese imperial themes.
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I just finished a horrific literature class about the use of minimalism in post modern writing where my teacher degraded me in the most vitriolic manner because my style is so rooted in imagism.
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