Donald Judd: The Multicolored Work
Edited by Marianne Stockebrand. Texts by William C. Agee, Richard Shiff, Marianne Stockebrand, and Donald Judd.
One of the most important American artists of the 20th century, Donald Judd (1928–1994) pioneered the use of industrial materials and fabrication in serial forms to redefine the relationships between artist, art object, viewer, and space, and usher in the Minimalist style. His signature work transformed in 1984 when he radically revised his approach to color after learning of an industrial process for shaping and enameling aluminum in an array of colors from a commercial color chart. In the last decade of his life, he created multicolored works of serial forms, both wall-mounted and free-standing, which reveal an entirely new engagement with color.
Focusing entirely on Judd’s multicolored works, this handsome book features essays by leading scholars that illuminate this body of work and examine its relationship to his oeuvre as a whole. Judd was an important theorist in his own right, and his 1993 text, “Some Aspects of Color in General and Red and Black in Particular,” is reproduced here. An essential book on a groundbreaking artist, the volume includes images of dozens of multicolored works accompanied by preparatory drawings and collages, as well as photographs from the studio and the factory.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Artists: Donald Judd
Contributors: William C. Agee, Donald Judd, Richard Shiff, Marianne Stockebrand
Designer: Rutger Fuchs
Printer: Lösch MedienManufaktur GmbH & Co. KG, Waiblingen, Germany
Publication Date: 2014
Binding: Hardcover
Dimensions: 7 1/2 x 9 1/2 in (19.1 x 24.1 cm)
Pages: 304 pages
Reproductions: 135 color
ISBN: 9780300197655
Retail: $45 US & Canada | £30 | €40
Status: Out Of Print
Donald Judd
The work of Donald Judd (1928–1994), one of the most significant American artists of the postwar period, has come to define what has been referred to as minimalist art—a label to which the artist strongly objected on the grounds of its generality. The unaffected, straightforward quality of Judd’s work demonstrates his strong interest in color, form, material, and space. With the intention of creating work that could assume a direct material and physical “presence” without recourse to grand philosophical statements, he 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.
William C. Agee
William C. Agee is Evelyn Kranes Kossak Professor of Art History at Hunter College, The City University of New York.
Richard Shiff
A scholar and critical theorist, Richard Shiff is the Effie Marie Cain Regents Chair in Art at The University of Texas at Austin. His interests range broadly across the field of modern and contemporary art. His publications include Barnett Newman: A Catalogue Raisonné (coauthored, 2004), Doubt (2008), Between Sense and de Kooning (2011), Ellsworth Kelly: New York Drawings 1954–1962 (2014), Joel Shapiro: Sculpture and Works on Paper 1969–2019 (2020), and Sensuous Thoughts: Essays on the Work of Donald Judd (2020). He is currently completing a comprehensive study of the art of Jack Whitten.
Marianne Stockebrand
Marianne Stockebrand is former director of the Chinati Foundation and the author of Chinati: The Vision of Donald Judd (Yale).