Published to accompany the first US retrospective exhibition of Donald Judd's sculpture in more than 30 years, Judd explores the work of a landmark artist who, over the course of his career, developed a material and formal vocabulary that transformed the field of modern sculpture. Donald Judd was among a generation of artists in the 1960s who sought to entirely do away with illusion, narrative and metaphorical content. He turned to three dimensions as well as industrial working methods and materials in order to investigate real space, by his definition. Judd surveys the evolution of the artist's work, beginning with his paintings, reliefs and handmade objects from the early 1960s through the years in which he built an iconic vocabulary of works in three dimensions, including hollow boxes, stacks and progressions made with metals and plastics by commercial fabricators and continuing through his extensive engagement with color during the last decade of his life. This richly illustrated catalog takes a close look at Judd's achievements, and, using newly available archival materials at the Judd Foundation and elsewhere, expands scholarly perspectives on his work. The essays address subjects such as his early beginnings in painting, the fabrication of his sculptures, his site-specific pieces and his work in design and architecture.
Foreword / Glenn D. Lowry -- Introduction: The originality of Donald Judd / Ann Temkin -- Plates -- "The student of painting" / Erica Cooke -- How Judd became Judd / James Meyer -- Plates -- Bernstein Brothers Sheet Metal Specialties, Inc. / Annie Ochmanek -- Judd and the museum / Ann Temkin -- Sense of site / Jeffrey Weiss -- Plates -- On the Judd scale:...Furniture, architecture... / Christine Mehring -- Swiss made: Judd's late work / Yasmil Raymond -- Around the studio: In conversation with Dudley Del Balso, Jamie Dearing, and Ellie Meyer / Tamar Margalit -- Exhibition checklist.