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Softcover, 240 pages, 300 bw, 8.5 x 11"
ISBN: 978-0-919616-42-4
Price: $70.00
Publication Date: January 2005
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Judd opened up art writing, showing that it didn’t deserve its bad names as a literary form and that it could establish the grounds for a public discourse among artists. His contemporaries like (Dan) Flavin, Robert Morris, and Sol LeWitt, as well as younger artists like Robert Smithson, Dan Graham, and me, all joined the publishing conversation.
– Bouchner, Mel. “Conversation Starter: Mel Bouchner on the republished writings of Donald Judd.” ARTFORUM International Summer 2005: 67-70.
Donald Judd’s uncompromising reviews avoid the familiar generalizations so often associated with the styles emerging during the 1950s and 1960s. This book is not a mere survey of the art produced and exhibited during that period. Instead, Judd discusses in detail the work of more than 500 artists showing in New York at that time and provides a critical account of this significant era in American art. While addressing the social and political ramifications of art production, the writings focus on the work of Jackson Pollock, Kasimir Malevich, Barnett Newman, Ad Reinhardt, John Chamberlain, Larry Poons, Kenneth Noland and Claes Oldenburg. The essay “Specific Objects” (1965), which by now is considered one of the essential discussions of sculptural thought in the ‘60s, is included as well as Judd’s notorious polemical essay, “Imperialism, Nationalism, Regionalism” (1975), published here for the first time. Accompanying the text are 300 reproductions as well as an extensive index.