Dan Flavin smuggled Vietnam War politics into Minimalist sculpture

Evidence

A limited edition of three, it was titled Corner monument 4 those who have been killed in ambush (to P.K. who reminded me about death). Minimalism was strictly about itself, although Flavin smuggled some political content in with a cryptic reference to a conversation regarding the Vietnam War with his friend, the artist Paul Katz. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 1974

Categorization

• XREF: Complicates the standard reading that Minimalism was purely self-referential — useful counter-evidence for any claim about art movements being ideology-free.