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Johns’s few cast objects and a few of Rauschenberg’s works, such as the goat with the tire, are beginnings. Some European paintings are related to objects, Klein’s for instance, and Castellani’s, which have unvaried fields of low-relief elements. Arman and a few others work in three dimensions. Dick Smith did some large pieces in London
In Donald Judd …texts of the movement, “Specific Objects” (1965). The article laid out the Minimalist platform of stressing the physical, phenomenological experience of objects rather than representing any metaphysical or metaphoric symbolism.
Donald Clarence Judd (June 3, 1928 – February 12, 1994) was an American artist associated with minimalism. In his work, Judd sought autonomy and clarity for the constructed object and the space created by it, ultimately achieving a rigorously democratic presentation without compositional hierarchy.
Above all, he was opposed to “illusionism” and “rationalism,” which, in his view, were closely linked. “Three dimensions are real space,” he wrote in “Specific Objects.” “That gets rid of the problem of illusionism.” Why did Judd object to this “relic of European art” so strongly?
July 4, 2013. Susan Inglett Gallery. 522 West 24th Street, Chelsea. Through July 26. This exhibition proposes to correct the widely held misconception about Donald Judd’s often-quoted 1965...
Donald Judd who, in his essay, "Specific Objects," spelled out this strategy. "The best new work," he declared, is "neither painting nor sculpture," but a paradoxical hybrid, like "a picture [which] stops being a picture and turns into an arbitrary object."2 The specific object only needs the third dimension in order to exist,
By the 1970s, Judd's "specific objects," as he liked to call these box-like forms that sat directly on the floor, had become, despite their sharp edges and flat color, more complex through his exploration of surface and color.
