the convincing record of contemporary work of art's examine of the recorded focus, stylish era's study of the display , the intellectual Douglas Crimp portrays this 'ambush on the refinement of both specialist and compelling artwork' outlines " for the eyewitness' 'self- discerning perspective of the immaterial article objective (Crimp 1993: 16–17).
Arguing that it was this very ‘condition of reception’ which ‘came to be known as site specificity’, he concludes that minimalism’s radicalism ‘lay not only in the displacement of the artist-subject by the spectator-subject but in securing that displacement through the wedding of the artwork to a particular environment’ (Crimp 1993: 16–17).