Donald judd specific objects versus robert morris notes on sculpture. This pioneering book, the first monograph devoted to donald judd, addresses the whole breadth of judds practices. Donald judds 1964 essay specific objects probably remains his most wellknown. Specific objects, an exhibition conceived by david platzker, examines works by artists cited in donal judds seminal essay specific objects. Joseph kosuth, 1969, art after philosophy half or more of the best new work in the last few years has been neither painting nor sculpture. Pdf donald judd writings download full pdf book download. This is the complete, authorized collection of donald judds early art criticism and polemical writings. Diverging discourses in estonian art in the 1970s andres kurg usan buckmorss has analysed the dreamworld of modernity and mass utopia that was shared by american capitalism and soviet socialism, and pointed to the striking similarities in visual imagery of high. The president and fellows of harvard college peabody museum of archaeology and ethnology specific objects. In donald judd texts of the movement, specific objects 1965. Ultimately, raskin develops a picture of judd as never before seen. Donald judd is a landmark figure in the history of postwar art. Judd, andre, deshayes and the concept of specific objects.
The literalist attitude toward sculpture is more ambiguous. The exhibition will be on view at susan inglett gallery 20 june to 26 july 20. The passion of donald judd by eric gibson the new criterion. The president and fellows of harvard college peabody. Download is free of charge and includes format options to match your preferred software. Some european paintings are related to objects, kleins for instance, and castellanis, which have unvaried fields of lowrelief elements. Susan inglett is pleased to present an exhibition of drawings by donald judd curated by david platzker from 23 may to 29 june 1996. The work is diverse, and much in it that is not in painting and sculpture is also diverse. The essay makes a detailed analysis of the role of the imaginary and symbolic phallus in judds first sequence of specific objects, based on lacanian theory that shows how these functioned at the level of the form and colour of the work, and in the rhetoric of power anna chave so often found in his essays. In donald judds view, when you start relating parts, in the first place, you. Specific furniture will look beyond judds work in sculpture, which he called specific objects, to examine his furniture design as its own practice, independent from his artworks. It provides users with tools to create and maintain a digital portfolio of their learning and social networking features to allow users to interact with each other.
He referred to his artwork, not as paintings or sculptures, but as specific objects. The conservation of donald judds first concrete work, untitled. Donald judds specific objects and the art of installation huffpost. It is a variety collection of poems aboutlove, faith. With hundreds of pages of new and previously unpublished essays, notes, and letters, donald judd writings is the most comprehensive collection of the artists writings assembled to date. This is a collection of poetry that has been written over a long period of time. The object as a whole and its relation to the surrounding environment was important. Page 1 of 6 judd, specific objects specific objects donald judd half or more of the best new work in the last few years has been neither painting nor sculpture.
On view at the san francisco museum of modern art sfmoma july 14 through november 4, 2018, donald judd. Donald judd, specific objects, arts yearbook 8, 1965. Johnss few cast objects and a few of rauschenbergs works, such as the goat with the tire, are beginnings. This exhibition will also bring together judds furniture with designs he owned and admired, as well as. Donald judd writings available for download and read online in other formats. Although these objectbased works looked rather disparate formally, they each rejected traditions of pictorial illusionism in favour of shaping a new engagement with. The large freestanding concrete sculpture at the glass house is judds first in.
In 1965, judd published his nowcanonical treatise specific objects, in which he eschewed the classical ideals of representational painting and sculpture in. The 2011 cleaning and repair of donald judds first outdoor concrete sculpture, untitled 1971, was made possible in part by a matching grant from the historic sites fund. The research explores donald judds concept of specific objects, and how the notion of singular qualities, so essential to the concept, can be extended through the practice of sculpture. Usually it has been related, closely or distantly, to one or the other. Judds argument in specific objects explicitly and systematically opposed greenberg and his version of modernism that was laid out in. F or some time, ive felt that the discipline of art history, with its emphasis on historical progression and stylistic evolution, wasnt quite adequate to the task of coming to terms with the work of the american artist donald judd 192894. While donald judd was best known for his sculptures, or specificobjects, his drawings present the best rare evidence of.
Download judd s specific objects pdf here, courtesy of the judd foundation. The article laid out the minimalist platform of stressing the physical, phenomenological experience of objects rather than representing any metaphysical or metaphoric symbolism. Thirteen most wanted men by andy warhol is installed, momentarily, on the facade of the state pavilion at the worlds fair in new york 1965. Specific objects, first published in arts yearbook 8. In it, he described new artworks characterized by, among other features, a quality as a whole instead of conventional partbypart structure, the use of three dimensions and real space as opposed to depiction, new materials that arent obviously art, and the unadorned appearance and. So in that way these are really visceral objects theyre. Douglas party, including navaho and paiute indians, celebrate their discovery of rainbow bridge, utah, as they eat watermelon in paiute canyon, 1909. New york christies new york is pleased to present forms in color, a minimalist sale that will follow first open. Its clever features let you browse thousands of highquality objects quickly and find exactly what your project needs. Donald clarence judd june 3, 1928 february 12, 1994 was an american artist associated with minimalism a term he nonetheless stridently disavowed. Major solo exhibitions of terry adkins and donald judd. The alternating of solid and negative space therefore creates a pleasing rhythm, while the enormity of the. Judd foundation maintains and preserves donald judd s permanently installed living and working spaces, libraries, and archives in new york and marfa, texas.
Minimalism receives its theorization at the hands of its major practitioners, judd and robert morris box. The paper focuses on the challenges of creating singular forms exhibiting both unity and variation through rapid prototyping. In the 1950s, he studied philosophy and art history and took classes at the art students league in new york. The sale features over 160 lots, from sculpture and painting to drawing and editions on paper, by over sixty leading minimalist artists. The author discusses his attempts to exploit computeraided design and manufacture to extend donald judds sculptural concept of specific objects. American art embraces all methods of investigation to explore the nations rich and diverse artistic legacy. Half or more of the best new work in the last few years has been neither painting nor sculpture. Wiki for collaborative studies of arts, media and humanities.
Download donald judd architecture functionjunction. Sculptural object circa 1960 oxford art journal oxford. Though judd is commonly associated with largescale sculptures, he experimented in painting with surface, form, space, and color, as well as unique curved forms and. The bimobject cloud is the worlds largest platform for manufacturer specific bim content. Abc art, primary structures, and specific objects is largely ideological. Judd, for example, seems to think of what he calls specific objects as something other than sculpture, while robert morris conceives of his own unmistakably literalist work as resuming the lapsed tradition of constructivist sculpture established by tatlin, rodchenko, gabo, pevsner. According to judd, unity can only be achieved in sculpture when its form is specific and has only one quality. The historic sites fund is endowed in part by grants from the national park service and the national trusts gifts of.
His specific objects, as he called them, were interesting to a specific subject. Download free bim content from the bimobject cloud bimobject. The computeraided design and manufacture of specific objects. It was during this time that he developed from an abstract painter into. Specific objects kassel university press uni kassel. Arts is a somewhat conservative magazine but it is not uniformly, simply or blindly conservative, and the several conservative writers vary. Project muse the computeraided design and manufacture. Donald judd s specific objects and the art of installation. Donald judd architecture epub format pdf book jan 08, 2020. Donald judd, widely regarded as one of the most significant american artists of the postwar period, is perhaps bestknown for the largescale outdoor installations and long, spacious interiors he designed in marfa, texas. In his landmark essay specific objects, judd mapped a wide array of early 1960s artworks that took hybrid form or that were constructed from diverse materials and colours. Ten identical boxy forms are arranged in vertical fashion one above the other with the spaces between each equivalent to the height of each box. During these years, judd moved from hardedged linear and geometric paintings and prints to the constructed, threedimensional specific object, defined by its bracing relation to what judd in specific objects calls real or actual space.
Specific objects half or more of the best new work in the. His essay specific objects, first published in 1965, remains central to the analysis of the new art developed in the early 1960s. His oeuvre has come to define what has been referred to as minimalist arta label the artist strongly objected to. In april were reading specific objects, a controversial essay by donald judd, originally published in 1965. It seeks to declare and occupy a positionone that can be formulated in words, and in fact has been formulated bysome of its leading practitioners. Through a broad interdisciplinary approach, the journal provides readers with a richer understanding not only of specific artists and objects, but also of the cultural factors that have shaped american visual culture over three centuries. Donald judds specific objects and the art of installation. Mahara is an open source eportfolio and social networking web application.
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