“Minimalism….has become the most potent language of the elegiac and the evocative”

Minimalism, which began as the model of an inexpressive style, a rejection of symbol for pure structure, has become the most potent language of the elegiac and the evocative, the one common basis with which to build a memorial.

Adam Gopnik, “Stones and Bones”, The New Yorker (7 & 14 July 2014), 44.