The third of a series of reading group podcasts on sculpture. In this episode we talk about Rosalind Krauss’s essay, ‘Sculpture in the Expanded Field’ from 1979. In the essay, Krauss lays out what has become an influential idea of postmodern art through defining a very particular genealogy of Minimalist and post-minimalist artists working in the US in the 1960s and 70s. We also read a chapter from Tina Post’s 2023 book, Deadpan, in which Post thinks about Minimalism in relation to an aesthetic of looming and an affect of threat.
Below are the texts we looked at for this podcast, with links to download a PDF of each text.
Krauss, Rosalind. ‘Sculpture in the Expanded Field’. October 8, no. Spring (1979): 30–44. Download PDF
Post, Tina. ‘Minimalism and the Aesthetics ofBlack Threat’. In Deadpan: The Aesthetics of Black Inexpression. Minoritarian Aesthetics. New York: New York University Press, 2023. Download PDF