About the author(s)
James Meyer is a writer and art historian who has been teaching
contemporary art and critical theory at Emory University, Atlanta, since
1994. He is a noted specialist and lecturer in Minimalism, as well as
other forms of American art of the 1960s, and contemporary forms of
institutional critique.
Meyer has written extensively on Minimal artists. Publications include
Minimalism:
Art and Polemics in the 1960s (Yale, 2001); he has contributed
essays to
Mel Bochner: Thought Made Visible 1966–1973 (Yale,
1995);
Ellsworth Kelly: Sculpture for a Large Wall, 1957
(Matthew Marks Gallery, 1998);
Eva Hesse: A Retrospective, ed.
Elisabeth Sussman (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2002);
Conceptual
Art: Theory, Myth, Practice (Cambridge, 2004) and
A Minimal
Future (Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 2004). He is the
editor of
Carl André, Cuts=Texts, 1999–2004 (MIT Press, 2005)
and has contributed to journals
Artforum, Art Magazine, Flash Art
and
Parkett.
