“…95 Indeed, to believe Barnett Newman, 'we are freeing ourselves-the impediments of memory, association, nostalgia, legend, myth, and what have you, that have been the devices of western European painting'. 96 Since memory comprises pretty much all of culture, perhaps minimalism was primitivism redux: civilization rebooted from scratch. But it was also about transcending man-the old anthropocentric conceit that minimalists wanted to extinguish by eliminating narrative intention, exposition, tension, resistance, or resolution.…”