Donald Judd
American artist and leading theoretician of minimalism.
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Donald Clarence Judd was an American artist born June 3, 1928, who died February 12, 1994.[1]
Life and work
Judd was born in Excelsior Springs, Missouri, and served in the Army as an engineer from 1946 to 1947.[2] He earned a bachelor's degree in philosophy at Columbia University and studied art history under Rudolf Wittkower and Meyer Schapiro.[3] He wrote the essay "Specific Objects" in 1964, finding a starting point for a new territory for American art.[4] Judd rejected applying the word "sculpture" to his work, which to him signified carving.[5]
Expressionist paintings were featured in Judd's debut solo show, which began in 1957 at New York's Panoras Gallery.[6] On February 12, 1994, at age 65, Judd passed away in Manhattan from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.[7]
What the cited sources add
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation states that Judd rejected the gestural and expressive in his works, allowing the work to develop based on properties inherent in the art itself.[5] The same source notes that Judd incorporated mathematical models to determine the construction of his structures.[5] That article also states that Judd's sculptures challenge the viewer's conception of art through minimal form and geometric design.[8] The Modern Art Notes Podcast notes that "The Multicolored Works" was the first museum exhibition to focus on Judd's use of color in the 1980s.[9]
In his 1993 essay "It's Hard to Find a Good Lamp," Judd stated that the configuration and scale appropriate for art cannot be carried over to furniture and architecture.[10]
References
- Wikipedia, "Donald Judd" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Chilvers, Ian & Glaves-Smith, John eds., Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Art, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. p. 350; Tate Modern website "Tate Modern Past Exhibitions Donald Judd". Retrieved on February 19, 2009. (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Donald Judd" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Tate Modern website "Tate Modern Past Exhibitions Donald Judd". Retrieved on February 19, 2009. (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Donald Judd" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: William L. Hamilton (March 23, 2006), The Proto-Loft, Reborn The New York Times.; Bui, "Donald Judd and 101 Spring Street", The Brooklyn Rail, April 2010 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Donald Judd" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Chilvers, Ian & Glaves-Smith, John eds., Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Art, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. pp. 350–351 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- "Donald Judd – John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation", www.gf.org. facts only, no text reused. gf.org
- Wikipedia, "Donald Judd" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Meyer, "Minimalism: Art and Polemics in the Sixties", Yale University Press, April 24, 2004; Donald Judd – Woodcut Prints Paula Cooper Gallery, May 2 – June 30, 2008. Accessed January 31, 2011 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Donald Judd" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Roberta Smith, Donald Judd, Leading Minimalist Sculptor, Dies at 65 New York Times, February 13, 1994. Accessed January 31, 2011.; "Growing Up Judd", W Magazine, May 2013 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Amy Ehrnreiter (September 18, 2007), 'Gray box' maintains mystery The Northerner.. facts only, no text reused. thenortherner.com
- Green, Tyler, and Marianne Stockebrand, perf. "Donald Judd." The Modern Art Notes Podcast. Modern Art Notes Media, 16 May 2013. web. 2 Jan 2014.. facts only, no text reused. web.archive.org
- Judd, "It's Hard to Find a Good Lamp", Judd Foundation, 1993. facts only, no text reused. web.archive.org
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