Donald Judd Interviews compiles more than sixty conversations spanning four decades, forming the first collection of its kind and the essential companion to the critically acclaimed Donald Judd Writings — a record of one of art's most uncompromising minds thinking aloud.
About This Book
Where Writings gave us Judd's considered positions, Interviews gives us his thinking in motion. Across sixty-plus conversations, Judd engages philosophy, politics, and his own practice with the same directness he brought to making objects. The range is remarkable: from a foundational early dialogue with Dan Flavin and Frank Stella — a document of Minimalism being theorised in real time — to exchanges with art historians Lucy R. Lippard and Barbara Rose, much of it previously unpublished. Judd's critiques of contemporaries including Barnett Newman, Jackson Pollock, Yayoi Kusama, and Edward Hopper are frank without being dismissive. For anyone serious about postwar art and the intellectual conditions that produced it, this volume is indispensable.
Key Features
- 1008 pages of interviews, panels, and extemporaneous conversations spanning four decades
- Includes previously unpublished material with art historians Lucy R. Lippard and Barbara Rose
- Opening dialogue between Donald Judd, Dan Flavin, and Frank Stella on the conditions of new art in the 1960s
- Published by David Zwirner, ISBN: 9781644230169
What You'll Discover
- How Judd articulated the material logic of Minimalism through dialogue with Flavin and Stella, establishing positions that shaped the movement's critical reception
- Judd's pointed assessments of peers — Mark di Suvero, Hopper, Kusama, Newman, Pollock — revealing the critical framework behind his own practice
- A substantial body of previously unpublished interviews that deepen the existing record of his thinking on art, politics, and philosophy
- His unambiguous view on artistic integrity, expressed in one of his final interviews: that art and architecture are real activities with their own integrity, distinct from commercial imperatives
About the Author
Donald Judd (1928–1994) was an American artist and critic whose work and writing were central to the development of Minimalism. His forthright manner and rigorous thinking are evident across four decades of interviews, panels, and conversations with critics, historians, and contemporaries alike.
Specifications
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 1008
- Dimensions: 11.4 x 24.9 cm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9781644230169
- Publisher: David Zwirner
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Artists, architects, and design thinkers with a serious interest in postwar Minimalism, art criticism, and the intellectual frameworks that shaped contemporary practice.