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1927 Musical Q. 13 545 Is not this ideo-psychological ‘minimalism’... Is not this the most important, most characteristic trait of Taneev's own individuality?

1956 Jrnl. Politics 18 121 The author suggests many of the doctrinal roots of later developments of Marxist thought, such as Revisionism, Minimalism, German Orthodoxy and Bolshevism.

1957 C. Middleton in tr. R. Walser Walk 10 The spectral ‘minimalism’ of Samuel Beckett, whose writings surely expose the very core of the modern predicament.

1967 H. Skolimowski Polish Analyt. Philos. vii. 206 It is not surprising, therefore, that in the period when minimalism, caution, and analysis were dominant in Poland, he [sc. Benedict Bernstein, 1880–1948] had no influence at all.

1976 National Observer (U.S.) 19 June 14/2 There is a mood I have called ‘the new minimalism’ that preaches less government, less spending, [etc.].

1986 New Statesman 14 Mar. 32/1 Profound drunkenness can rarely have been played with such deft minimalism.

1996 Guardian 7 Sept. (Weekend Suppl.) 73/1 His living room was a testament to minimalism. Stripped floors, a low black table, painting by either a Zen master or somebody who couldn't be arsed.

2000 Guardian (Electronic ed.) 17 Nov. Some of their 17 tracks are lushly atmospheric, while others have the rudimentary feel and brutal minimalism of earliest hip hop.

1929 D. Burliuk in M. E. Allentuck John Graham's System & Dialectics Art (1971) 25 Graham's..latest period, Minimalism..derives its name from the minimum of operating means.

1937 J. D. Graham Syst. & Dialectics Art §32 115 Minimalism is the reducing of painting to the minimum ingredients for the sake of discovering the ultimate, logical destination of painting in the process of abstracting.

1967 H. Rosenberg in New Yorker 25 Feb. 106/2 The novelty of the new minimalism lies not in its reductionist techniques but in its principled determination to purge painting and sculpture of any but formal experiences.

1973 Artforum Nov. 44/3 From the outside,..a claim for the continuity between Minimalism and post-Minimalism will seem rather obvious.

1981 H. Osborne Oxf. Compan. Twentieth-Cent. Art 376/2 Morris Louis was sometimes said to be a forerunner of Minimalism because he repudiated the ‘painterly’ use of pigment when he adopted the technique of staining unprimed canvas.

1986 ARTnews Nov. 105/2 He is orbiting Minimalism, but he combines his reductive, abstract shapes with a rippled, definitely unmachined surface.

1998 Time 19 Oct. 111/1 It was Serra..who began in the 1960s to rescue sculpture from the dematerializing effects of Minimalism.

1981 Perspectives of New Music 19 376 For the sake of attempting to make some stylistic generalizations about the music of Reich, we will accept the label of ‘minimalism’ for..music he composed up to 1971.

1985 Radio Times 20 July 85/1 In the 1960s he [sc. Steve Reich] began exploring the musical effects of repeated musical patterns that incorporate gradual changes over an extended period. The style came to be called minimalism.

1992 N.Y. Times 19 Jan. ii. 28/4 His style might be described as second-generation Minimalism, uniting the harmonies and rhythms of pop music with classical counterpoint and Minimalist repetition.

1999 Philadelphia Inquirer 26 Sept. f14/1 Archetypal sounds of '60s soul..get tossed in with traits of..the repetitive minimalism Philip Glass was perfecting in the mid-'70s.