Artists, architects, art historians, critics, and curators explore the
work of Donald Judd as both artist and critic in essays spanning all of
Judd's career.
Donald Judd (1928-1994) is one of the most influential American artists
of the postwar era. Beginning in the 1960s, he developed new ideas about
art--in both his works and writings--that challenged many of modernism's
core tenets by resisting the categories of painting and sculpture. Judd
described this work as specific objects. Critics labeled it minimalism.
Perhaps because Judd's own critical writings provide a discursive
framework for his work, some of the monographic essays on his work are
not widely known. This volume collects critical and scholarly writings
on Judd, examining his work as both artist and critic.