{"product_id":"donald-judd-9783869303901","title":"Donald Judd","description":"\u003cp\u003eOne of the most important American artists of the postwar period  Donald Judd has come to define Minimalist artthough he continued to strongly object to this categorization throughout his life. His unaffected  straightforward approach to his work and his strong interest in color  form  material  and space led him to create striking art objects with a direct physical presence  eschewing grand philosophical statements. Judd began his practice as a painter in the late 1940s; however  he soon introduced three-dimensional elements into the surface of his work. His first sculptural objects took the form of shallow reliefs  and by 1963 he had begun to create freestanding works that were presented directly on the floor and the wall. Throughout his practice  Judd used materials such as plywood  steel  concrete  Plexiglas  and aluminum and employed commercial fabricators in order to get the surfaces and angles he desired  creating declaratively simple  fundamental sculptural forms. This publication documents an exhibition held at David Zwirner in New York in 2011  which brought together twelve identically scaled aluminum works from the artists seminal 1989 solo presentation at the Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden. That exhibition marked the first time Judd used colored anodized aluminum in such a large  floor-mounted format thus comprising one of his few explorations of color on a large scale and providing a focused investigation of one of the key concerns within his practice. Although he had previously examined the qualities of an open box form  the works created for Baden-Baden display a distinct systematic approach in determining the interior space of each box  which Judd divided vertically in different spatial configurations  sometimes introducing color through the use of anodized elements or sheets of Plexiglas in blue  black  or amber. The combinations of materials  dividers  and colors which differ from box to boxthus determine the singular nature of each work within a finite number of variable possibilities  each of the boxes being an individual work that represents one possibility within the given parameters. Featuring new scholarship by art historian Richard Shiff  the books stunning visual elements are contextualized by such archival materials as Judds preparatory drawings  as well as an interview with the artist conducted in 1989 by Jochen Poetter.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67964996943925,"sku":"ByrdShop_3869303905","price":91.66,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9783869303901.jpg?v=1794549630","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/donald-judd-9783869303901","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}