An overview of the art scene in the 1960’s, primarily in New York City, through the eyes of the San Francisco Examiner art critic. With chapters focusing on a few major artists (Stella, Judd, Flavin, Andre, Morris) and concluding with loved art (Simpson, de Mare, Heizer, Serra). The author grounds the style in a reaction against the Abstract Expressionists of the ‘50s—anti-personal, painterly, gestural. Minimalism reduced the presence of the artist, focused on materials, sensuality, reproducibility, manufacturing, and emphasized the interconnection between the object and the viewer with the latter taking on a new level of responsibility for interpretation and relationship to the work. Rejection of metaphor, gesture and art skills and a new metaphysics of experience.