Minimalism emerged in New York in the early 1960s among artists who were self-consciously renouncing recent art they thought had become stale and academic. A wave of new influences and rediscovered styles led younger artists to question conventional boundaries between various media. The new art favored the cool over the "dramatic": their sculptures were frequently fabricated from industrial materials and emphasized anonymity over the expressive excess of Abstract Expressionism. Painters and sculptors avoided overt symbolism and emotional content, but instead called attention to the materiality of the works.
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| Untitled (1969) DONALD JUDD |
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| Die (1962) TONY SMITH |
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| The X (1965) RONALD BLADEN |
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| One Ton Prop ( House of Cards ) (1969) RICHARD SERRA |
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