Donald Judd

JUDD, Donald, Rudi Fuchs, Richard Shiff, David Batchelor, David Raskin, and Nicholas Serota

ISBN 10: 1891024892 / ISBN 13: 9781891024894

Published by Tate Publishing, London, 2004

About this Item

First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 288 pages. Published in conjunction with a show that started in London and traveled to Dusseldorf and Basel. Features essays by Rudi Fuchs, Richard Shiff, David Batchelor, David Raskin, Nicholas Serota along with two pieces by Judd. Includes numerous color and black and white illustrations, an extensive chronology by Jeffrey Kopie, lists of selected readings, selected exhibitions, checklist, and index. A clean and tight very near fine copy in yellow cloth boards and in a very near fine dust jacket. A lovely copy of what remains one of the better monographs on Judd.

Seller Inventory # 209126

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Donald Judd
• Publisher: Tate Publishing, London
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1891024892
• ISBN 13: 9781891024894
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Dust Jacket Condition: dj
• Weight: 5.875 pounds
• Seller catalogs:
  • Art Monographs

About this title

Synopsis

One of the most influential American artists of the post-war period, Donald Judd changed the course of modern sculpture. Beginning as an art critic and then a painter, Judd moved into three dimensions with the box-like structures he produced in the early 1960s, either arranged on the gallery floor or mounted on the wall. Initially constructed by hand, the sculptures were later industrially manufactured in galvanized iron, steel, Plexiglas, and plywood. His use of vibrant color, polished and reflective metals, and brightly hued lacquer confounded and continues to confound expectations of what "minimalist" sculpture should look like. This lavishly illustrated survey features 41 works from collections around the world, many of them large scale, each illustrated with full catalogue entries alongside many other major works by Judd. Contributors Nicholas Serota (Director of the Tate), Rudi Fuchs (former Director of The Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam), American critics Richard Schiff and David Raskin, and British artist and critic David Batchelor explore the conflicts between previous critical interpretations of Judd and his own philosophical, political, and moral understanding of his work. Judd's critical response to the work of other artists is examined, as is the importance of color to his work, and his reaction to new man-made materials and artificially generated color in the late-20th-century environment. A section on Judd's installations at Marfa in Texas, and an extensive new chronology, compiled by Judd's assistant, Jeff Kopie, are also included. Donald Judd compromises the most thorough and up-to-date publication on Judd in print today.

About the Author

Donald Judd was born in 1928. Convinced that Abstract Expressionism had deteriorated into fakery, Judd began around 1960 to search for an art free of falsehood. In search of a greater simplicity and clarity, he evolved a formal vocabulary of identical rectangular units constructed of industrial materials. He died in 1994.