Donald Judd: Artworks 1970–1994

Product Description

A sweeping selection of Donald Judd’s iconic and ambitious works alongside a diverse collection of newly commissioned writings.

One of the most significant American artists of the postwar period, Judd rigorously experimented with color, form, material, and space. The works in this catalogue range from the artist’s expansive installations to self-contained single units, yielding valuable new insights into his process and approach. The survey includes one of his largest and most intricate installations of sixty-three wall-mounted plywood boxes, conceived in 1986. Other works include variations on some of Judd’s most recognizable forms, executed in materials such as Cor-ten steel, plexiglass, copper, plywood, brushed aluminum, and enameled aluminum. Brilliant and exacting reproductions capture these works in vivid detail. Following the major Judd retrospective at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 2020, this book serves as a companion volume.
 
With contributions from a wide range of voices—art historians, critics, writers, and performers— this publication includes rich new writings on Judd’s oeuvre, art criticism, and enduring influence.
Artworks: 1970–1994 is published on the occasion of the eponymous 2020 exhibition at David Zwirner New York.

About the Author

With the intention of creating straightforward work that could assume a direct material and physical “presence” without recourse to grand philosophical statements,
Donald Judd (1928-1994) 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. 

Johanna Fateman is a writer, art critic, and owner of Seagull salon in New York. She is a regular contributor to the
New Yorker and
4Columns, and she is a contributing editor for
Artforum.

Lucy Ives is a novelist and critic. She recently edited
The Saddest Thing Is That I Have Had to Use Words: A Madeline Gins Reader (2020), the first definitive anthology of Gins’s poetry and experimental prose. A collection of Ives’s short stories,
Cosmogony, is forthcoming in early 2021.

Thessaly La Force is a writer and features director of
T: The New York Times Style Magazine. She lives in New York City. 

Flavin Judd is artistic director of Judd Foundation. He has designed architectural spaces and has written for exhibition catalogues and other publications. He is codesigner and coeditor of
Donald Judd Writings (2016),
Donald Judd Interviews (2019), and
Donald Judd Spaces (2020).

Branden W. Joseph is the Frank Gallipoli Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at Columbia University and a founding editor of the journal
Grey Room. He is the author of five books, including
Random Order: Robert Rauschenberg and the Neo-Avant-Garde (2003),
Beyond the Dream Syndicate: Tony Conrad and the Arts after Cage (2008), and
Experimentations: John Cage in Music, Art, and Architecture (2016). He has written on a variety of figures within the fields of art, music, and cinema, including Hilma af Klint, Angela Bulloch, Mike Kelley, Jutta Koether, Lee Lozano, Robert Morris, and Andy Warhol. In 2019 he was the recipient of both a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellowship from the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.

Anna Lovatt is associate professor of art history at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. Her research focuses on the relationship between systems and subjectivity in art of the 1960s onward, particularly in the context of Minimal, post-Minimal, and conceptual art. She is the author of
Drawing Degree Zero: The Line from Minimal to Conceptual Art (2019). 

Lauren Oyler’s essays and criticism appear regularly in
The New Yorker,
The New York Times Magazine,
The New York Times Book Review, the
London Review of Books,
Harper’s Magazine, and
Bookforum, among other publications. She is the author of the novel
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