The arts need a voice in power, say people in the field, someone in the corridors of influence to argue the benefits of teaching the nation's students
about classical and jazz music, ballet, and
sculpture.
Already, many sixties artists have taken on, for me, this
classical stature — Dan Flavin, Carl Andre, Don Judd, Robert Morris, Kenneth Noland, among others — which feels more like past than present...» Nevertheless, many of the assumptions which were first propounded
about the style — or what was commonly claimed, the non-style — of Minimalism (née Cool Art, The Third Stream, Post Geometric Structures, ABC Art, Object
Sculpture, Specific Objects, Primary Structures, or Art of the Real) have remained unchallenged for over a decade.
In the drapery portrayed in
Classical sculpture, the cloth is typically generic — we can't learn much
about ancient weaving technology from it — and that allows the folds to read as purely expressive.