These are the sources and citations used to research specific objects donald judd. It identifies in broad terms a reductive new approach to making objects that are somewhere between painting and sculpture, but neither one nor the other. Format and image in 20th century art second printing. Judd discovered that, if he placed a work on a wall with reference to one or two corners, or in a similar way onto the ground or on an outdoor.
In the 1950s, he studied philosophy and art history and took classes at the art students league in new york. This timely publication includes judds bestknown essays, as well as littleknown texts previously published in limited editions. According\ud to judd, unity can only be achieved in sculpture when its form is specific and has only one quality. This gave judd enough raw material to rebel, to break away, and to talk about specific objects in threedimensional space, objects that were neither painting nor sculpture but were hybrids, often ultrarefined, as in his early minimal seriations. Images of works by jackson pollock can be found on the guggenheim museums web site at.
To begin again at the beginning in a proper philosophical manner, one person is a unity, and somehow, after the long complex process, a work of art is a similar unity. Since i leapt into the world an empiricist, ideality was not a quality i wanted donald judd in art journal, 1981. Pdf donald judd writings download full pdf book download. Specific objects, an exhibition conceived by david platzker, examines works by artists cited in donal judds seminal essay specific objects. Credited as minimalisms principal spokesman, judd wrote what is considered to be one of the most significant texts of the movement. Specific, guillermo zuaznabar assesses judds legendary essayperhaps the most influential text by an artist made in the past centuryand ranges across the entirety of judds output to examine the ways in which he applied his conception to actual specific objects. Arts yearbook 8, specific objects 1965 the new work obviously resembles sculpture more than it does painting, but it is nearer to painting.
Donald judd renounced the legacy of renaissance art in no uncertain terms. Pauls free, please book your place in april were reading specific objects, a controversial essay by donald judd, originally published in 1965. Produced by donald judd furniture through the judd foundation using the same furniture fabricators and materials that judd. 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. Donald judd is a landmark figure in the history of postwar art. Judd, andre, deshayes and the concept of specific objects. Judd, donald, speci c objects, arts yearbook 8, 1965. According to judd, unity can only be achieved in sculpture when its form is specific and has only one quality. This bibliography was generated on cite this for me on wednesday, december 9, 2015. Specific objects, first published in 1965, remains judds most widelyread and oftencited essay. Specific furniture will feature approximately 30 pieces of furniture and 25 drawings, along with eight newly fabricated judd designs, including four chairs, two benches, a stool and a combined seattableshelf. The computeraided design and manufacture of specific objects. Di suvero uses beams as if they were brush strokes, imitating movement, as kline did. Judd challenge the artistic convention of originality by using industrial processes and materials such as steel, concrete, plywood, aluminum, copper, brass, etc.
And they were objects because they were fabricated rather than sculpted by the artist. Judds essay specific objectsaddressing not his own work but that of colleagues such as john chamberlain, claes oldenburg, and lee bontecouarticulated the qualities of the new threedimensional work that was neither painting nor sculpture. Judds seemingly simple objects come from a set of theories and explorations into how humans experience space and how objects relate to the space they inhabit. Page 3 of 6 judd, specific objects sculpture mainly suggests machines and truncated bodies. Donald judd studied extensively in painting, sculpture, and art theory at the art students league, the college of william and mary, and columbia university, where he received his degree in philosophy in 1953 and his ma in art history in 1962. Marfathe lonely cattle town that judd transformed into an art pilgrimage sitewas really just a grocery store and. Indeed, the contributions of donald judd to modernist art and the process of creation would turn out to be nothing less than seminal. Specific objects half or more of the best new work in the. The literalist attitude toward sculpture is more ambiguous. These were specific because the artist carefully orchestrated their shape, scale, proportions, and materiality.
Johnss few cast objects and a few of rauschenbergs works, such as the goat with the tire, are beginnings. Donald clarence judd june 3, 1928 february 12, 1994 was an american artist associated with minimalism a term he nonetheless stridently disavowed. Specific objects, first published in arts yearbook 8. By the mid1960s he had begun to develop a distinctive and intentionally narrow vocabulary, articulating objects that occupied, as judd said, real space. Regularly confused for a manifesto or statement on his own work, judd instead contended in a 1968 interview with lucy lippard that the.
The late donald judd is a household name in the world of minimalist art, and many are familiar with his foray into furniture design. Judds paintings focused on simplified composition while avoiding personal expression and spatial illusion. Donald judd, in full donald clarence judd, born june 3, 1928, excelsior springs, missouri, u. Start this article has been rated as startclass on the projects quality scale. The exhibition will be on view at susan inglett gallery 20 june to 26 july 20. The article laid out the minimalist platform of stressing the physical, phenomenological experience of objects rather than representing any metaphysical or metaphoric. Judd called these mature works specific objects rather than sculptures or works of art, to indicate their distance from traditional ways of making sculptural art. Download judds specific objects pdf here, courtesy of the judd foundation. Donald judd 19281994 began his career as an abstract painter in new york city in the mid1950s, but in 1962 he began to work in three dimensions. Judd wanted his objects he called them specific objects, not sculptures to assert themselves as unified forms that take into account the space around them. The paper focuses on the challenges of creating singular forms exhibiting both unity and variation through rapid prototyping. It was during this time that he developed from an abstract painter into the producer of the hollow. All interested editors are invited to join the project and contribute to the discussion. Credited as minimalisms principal spokesman, judd wrote what is considered to be one of the most significant texts of the movement, specific objects 1965.
Most sculpture is like the painting which preceded pollock, rothko. Judds essay specific objects, first published in 1965, remains central to the analysis of the new art developed in the early 1960s. This article is within the scope of wikiproject biography, a collaborative effort to create, develop and organize wikipedia s articles about people. Other essays included in this publication are complaints i 1969, complaints ii 1973 and his previously unpublished essay imperialism, nationalism and regionalism 1975, all of which establish the.
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. Judds 1965 essay specific objectsthough not a manifesto of minimalism as such, and inclusive of artists not usually associated with the movementis one of the most wellknown explanations of the priorities of minimalist artists. Usually it has been related, closely or distantly, to one or the other. Specific objects is considered an important text wherein donald judd describes the new art produced in new york during the 1960s, and tries to distinguish it from old painting or sculpture. Donald judds specific objects and the art of installation. Some european paintings are related to objects, kleins for instance, and castellanis, which have unvaried fields of lowrelief elements. Donald judd who, in his essay, specific objects, spelled out this strategy. For instructions on how to use this banner, please refer to the documentation. In his work, judd sought autonomy and clarity for the constructed object and the space created by it, ultimately achieving a rigorously democratic presentation without compositional hierarchy. The research explores donald judds concept of specific objects, and how the notion of singular\ud qualities, so essential to the concept, can be extended through the practice of sculpture. Other articles where specific objects is discussed. Donald judd june 3, 1928 february 12, 1994 was an american artist associated with minimalism a term he nonetheless stridently disavowed. Donald judds 1964 essay specific objects probably remains his most wellknown.
Its combination of plaster and metal is more specific. Widely considered one of the most important american artists of the twentieth century, donald judd transformed the art. The best new work, he declared, is neither painting nor sculpture, but a paradoxical hybrid, like a picture which stops being a picture and turns into an arbitrary object. 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. 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. 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. Judd s sculpture was other articles where specific objects is discussed. Judd, andre, deshayes and the concept of specific objects words by. The author discusses his attempts to exploit computeraided design and manufacture to extend donald judds sculptural concept of specific objects. The president and fellows of harvard college peabody. Decades after it was first published, a 6page essay and the body of work that would follow it stand as timeless sources of inspiration for the creators at verk.