Editing Minimalism (section)

=== Literalism ===
[[File:Donald Judd Concrete Blocks.jpg|thumb|Donald Judd's ''Untitled'']]
[[Michael Fried]] called the minimalist artists ''literalists'', and used '''literalism''' as a [[pejorative]] due to his position that the art should deliver [[Transcendence (philosophy)|transcendental]] experience{{sfn | Glaves-Smith | Chilvers | 2015 | loc=literalists}} with [[metaphor]]s, [[Symbolism (arts)|symbolism]], and [[stylization]]. Per Fried's (controversial) view, the literalist art needs a spectator to validate it as art: an "object in a situation" only becomes art in the eyes of an observer. For example, for a regular sculpture its physical location is irrelevant, and its status as a work of art remains even when unseen. The [[Donald Judd]]'s pieces (see photo), on the other hand, are just objects sitting in the desert sun waiting for a visitor to discover them and accept them as art.{{sfn | Hogan | 2008 | p=22}}