The design of this book, a theoretical primer for an exhibition about minimal art, plays on the show’s exploration of the interconnection between form and ideology. Minimal Politics examines the leftist political concerns lurking in the industrial cubes and plinths of the century’s most abstract and pared-down aesthetic movement. The design expands on the exhibition’s historical, aesthetic, and social issues, elegantly subverting the formal vocabulary of book design: the cover slyly conceals much of its “content” under its cool, metallic surface; the pages play with and against the modernist grid, continually testing our preconceptions about typography and composition.