Donald Judd Writings
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| Rating | : | 4.95 (803 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1941701353 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 1056 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-05-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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Highly recommended! As far as thinking and writing about visual art, he will go down as one of the preeminent voices
In these intimate reflections we see Judd’s thinking at its least mediated--a mind continuing to grapple with questions of its moment, demonstrating the intensity of thought that continues to make Judd such a formidable presence in contemporary art.. This timely publication includes Judd’s best-known essays organized chronologically with little-known texts previously published in limited editions. This new collection also includes unpublished college essays and hundreds of never-before-seen handwritten notes, a critical but unknown part of Judd’s writing practice.Judd’s earliest published writing, consisting largely of reviews for hire, defined the terms of art criticism in the 1960s, but his essays as a graduate student at Columbia, published here for the first time, contain the seeds of his later writing, and allow readers to trace the development of his critical style. The writings that followed Judd’s early reviews are no less significant art-historically, but have been re
For these nuggets alone, younger artists would learn much from this book. they contain art world truths that many suspect, but are not commonly admitted. (Hyperallergic)Brick-size, over 1,000 pages long, it reflects the immense range of his interest in art, history and politics, and his disgruntlement with the state of the worldin all, a stimulating portrait of this intractable artist and thinker. (Roberta Smith The New York Times) . (Richard Kostelanetz Hyperallergic)Thanks to
With the intention of creating work that could assume a direct material and physical “presence” without recourse to grand philosophical statements, he eschewed the classical ideals of representational sculpture to create a rigorous visual vocabulary that sought clear and definite objects as its primary mode of articulation.Judd Foundation is a public char