In this month’s issue of
Artforum, J. Hoberman contributes the essay “
Vulgar Minimalism”—a follow-up, and sequel, to his 1982 essay “Vulgar Modernism.” In that text, he identifies a “particular sensibility” in the American culture industry that is “the vulgar equivalent of modernism itself.” It is a “popular, ironic, somewhat dehumanized mode reflexively concerned with the specific properties of its medium or the conditions of its making.”
—The editors