ABSTRACT
Postminimalism was ushered in by a show titled Eccentric Abstraction, curated by Lucy Lippard in the fall of 1966. She decided to organize the show because the rigors of minimalism, of which she had been an early champion, had made her aware of what was precluded, namely "any aberrations toward the exotic." Robert Morris, an originator of minimal sculpture, chronicled the transition-in-progress from minimalism to postminimalism. In 1969, at roughly the same time as 9in a Warehouse, James Monte and Marcia Tucker curated the first museum show of postminimal art, Anti-Illusion: Procedures/Materials, at the Whitney Museum. Declaring the radicality of their work, postminimal artists and their supporters announced that painting was not only outmoded but had reached its terminal condition. Morris's work exemplified the transition from unitary objects to process, earth, installation, and conceptual art.
