Musicology Annotation << Back The Art of Strict Forms: American Minimalism in Painting and Music A.E. Krom The paper is concerned with the art of the American minimal music, origin and becoming of his aesthetics and system of expressive facilities, formed in a close creative dialog with the New York avantgarde painting and sculpture of 1960s — 1970s. Key words: Steve Reich, Philip Glass, minimal music, pattern, repetitive technique, avantgarde, Minimal art. E-mail: yannakrom@yandex.ru