COLLECTION NAME:
Visual Resources Teaching Collection
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Image Record ID:
aahi0005154
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Work Title (display):
Untitled
Image Title:
full view
Work Dates (display):
1970
Work Dates type:
creation
Image Date (display):
2009-09-10
Work Creator (display):
Donald Judd (American, 1928-1994)
Work Creator gender:
male
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male
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Work Creator notes (display):
American sculptor, painter and writer. He studied philosophy and art history at the Art Students League (19478; 195053) and Columbia University (194953; 195762), a training that encompassed art theory as well as painting and sculpture. His first works, which he later termed 'half-baked abstractions', were untitled paintings in which he sought to simplify composition and to eliminate the balancing of forms that he felt characterized post-war European art. From 1959 to 1965 he wrote art criticism for American journals such as Arts Magazine, championing fellow artists from New York such as Claes Oldenburg, Frank Stella, John Chamberlain and Dan Flavin. During this period he gave up painting in order to devote himself to sculpture, or rather to the object, making painted wooden structures such as Light Cadmium Red Oil on Wood (1963; Ottawa, N.G.) that he exhibited in 1963 at the Green Gallery, New York. In their matter-of-factness and simplicity these abstract works were a logical continuation of the Colour field painting practised by American artists such as Barnett Newman. By placing the objects directly on the ground rather than on a plinth or base, Judd further emphasized their self-sufficiency, as in Untitled (1963; Ottawa, N.G.) Between 1964 and 1966 Judd perfected a formal vocabulary that was soon labelled Minimalism, which he subsequently developed in different materials. A favourite form was the box, either closed, semi-hollow or transparent, presented neutrally so as to refute any symbolic connotation. In some cases a number of boxes were attached to the wall in the form of a stack of alternating solids and voids of equal size, as in Untitled (1965; Stockholm, Mod. Mus.). Many of the works embodied seriality, either as a simple mathematical progression or as a repetition of a standard unit. In works such as Anodized Aluminium and Brushed Aluminium (1969; Eindhoven, Stedel. Van Abbemus.) Judd favoured metals such as painted steel, aluminium or galvanized iron as sculptural materials, sometimes in combination with another industrial material, perspex (as in Untitled, 1968; Toronto, A.G. Ont.; see ). Subsequently he used unpolished laminated wood and (for his outdoor sculptures) concrete. He had his works made in a factory in order to obtain a perfect finish without having to rework the material. Judd belonged to a generation that ignored traditional craft skills in deference to an overriding system or idea. His theories were elaborated in an influential article, 'Specific Objects', in 1965. Judd began in the 1970s to work on a larger scale, gradually creating a type of open-air museum of his work surrounding his studio at Marfa, TX. In 1984 he also began applying the principles of his sculpture to a plain style of furniture. (Alfred Pacquement. "Judd, Donald." Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. 18 Mar. 2009 .)
Work Style Period:
Minimal
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Minimal
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Work Style Period:
20th century
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20th century
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false
Work Style Period:
Contemporary
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Contemporary
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Work Subject:
tension (physical)
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tension (physical)
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false
Work Subject:
gravity
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gravity
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Work Subject:
boxes (containers)
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boxes (containers)
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Work Subject:
space (composition concept)
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space (composition concept)
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Work Subject:
industrialization
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industrialization
Work Subject
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Work Worktype:
sculpture (visual works)
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sculpture (visual works)
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Work Category (VRC classification):
sculptures and installations
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sculptures and installations
Work Category (VRC classification)
false
Work Material and Technique (display):
galvanized iron
Work Measurements (display):
7 units, each 9 in (H) x 40 in (W) x 30 in (D), with 9 in intervals
Work Location (Repository or Site) name:
Moderna museet (Stockholm, Sweden)
Work Location (Repository or Site) role:
exhibition
Work Location (Geographic) name:
Stockholm, Sweden
Image Source Reproduction citation:
Taylor, Brandon. Contemporary Art: Art Since 1970. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education, Inc., 2005.
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Taylor, Brandon. Contemporary Art: Art Since 1970. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education, Inc., 2005.
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false
Image Source Reproduction refid:
0-13-118174-2
Image Source Reproduction page number:
15
Image Source Reproduction refid type:
ISBN
Image Rights (display):
© Donald Judd Foundation
Image Rights fair use checklist:
1) use of this image is for education and educational research; 2) access is restricted to University of Colorado and Auraria Higher Education Center communities; 3) the original photographer is credited if known; 4) the image is published; 5) the amount of the work in relation to the whole is needed for education or educational research; 6) the number of derivatives is the minimum required for education or educational research; 7) the image has not been found to be reasonably available for sale; 8) duplication of the image does not violate preexisting contracts.
Work Rights (display):
© Donald Judd
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Holding Institution:
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Collection:
Art and Art History Visual Resources Collection
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