First edition. Quarto, pp. [8], 196. Well illustrated throughout with archive documents, sketches, paintings, plus photographs of Judd's sculptures in galleries and in-situ. Publisher's black cloth with white titles to spine in an unclipped pictorial dust-jacket; grey end-papers. A clean, bright copy. Near fine book in a near fine dust-jacket with a tiny closed tear to spine head. First in-depth analysis of American sculptor Donald Judd's (1928-1994) life and art, using documents from nearly twenty archives to showcase the range of his work with copious colour photographs. Heavyweight so a contribution towards increased postage costs will be requested for overseas delivery.

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Title: Donald Judd.
Publisher: London; Yale University Press, 2010.
Publication Date: 2010
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0300162766
ISBN 13: 9780300162769
Binding: Hard Cover
Edition: 1st Edition
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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This pioneering book, the first monograph devoted to Donald Judd, addresses the whole breadth of Judd?s practices. Drawing on documents found in nearly twenty archives, David Raskin explains why some of Judd?s works of art seem startlingly ephemeral while others remain insistently physical. In the process of answering this previously perplexing question, Raskin traces Judd?s principles from his beginnings as an art critic through his fabulous installations and designs in Marfa, Texas. He discusses Judd?s early important paintings and idiosyncratic red objects, as well as the three-dimensional works that are celebrated throughout the world. He also examines Judd?s commitment to empirical values and his political activism, and concludes by considering the importance of Judd?s example for recent art.Ultimately, Raskin develops a picture of Judd as never before seen: he shows us an artist who asserted his individuality with spare designs; who found spiritual values in plywood, Pl

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David Raskin is professor of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

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