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Donald Judd
Also Known As Donald Clarence Judd
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Donald Clarence Judd was an American artist born in Excelsior Springs, Missouri, in 1928 and died in New York City in 1994. Standard accounts describe him as the leading American exponent of Minimalism and its most important theoretician, though Judd himself argued that the new three-dimensional work of the 1960s did not constitute a coherent movement, school or style. His 1965 essay Specific Objects, published in Arts Yearbook 8, set out his own account of works that stood as autonomous three-dimensional objects rather than as sculpture in the traditional European sense.
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BirthplaceExcelsior Springs, Missouri, United States 1 Death PlaceNew York City, United States 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
In Movement
Widely classed as Minimalism's leading figure and most important theoretician, though Judd rejected the label himself and argued the work named by it shared no real common style; see the recorded dissent on this edge.
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Wikimedia FoundationDonald Judd, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_JuddQuote, Donald Judd, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Judd
The new three dimensional work doesn't constitute a movement, school, or style. The common aspects are too general and too little common to define a movement.
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In Movement: Minimalism
Judd rejected the "Minimalism" label historians later applied to this edge. In Arts Yearbook 8 (1965) he wrote that the new three-dimensional work of his generation "doesn't constitute a movement, school, or style," arguing the pieces grouped under the term shared too little in common to define one; his own account of the work, laid out in the same essay, was "Specific Objects," describing autonomous three-dimensional objects rather than sculpture in the traditional European sense.
A dissenting reading, from Donald JuddWikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation
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