Donald Judd Interviews

Donald Judd Interviews

Donald Judd Interviews presentsÂ sixty interviews with the artist over the course of four decades, and is the first compilation of its kind. It is the companion volume to the critically acclaimed and bestsellingÂ Donald Judd Writings.

This collection of interviews engages a diverse range of topics, from philosophy and politics to Juddâ€™s insightful critiques of his own work and the work of others such as Mark di Suvero, Edward Hopper, Yayoi Kusama, Barnett Newman, and Jackson Pollock. The opening discussion of the volume between Judd, Dan Flavin, and Frank Stella provides the foundation for many of the succeeding conversations, focusing on the nature and material conditions of the new art developing in the 1960s. The publication also gathers a substantial body of unpublished material across a range of mediums including extensive interviews with art historians Lucy R. Lippard and Barbara Rose.

Juddâ€™s contributions in interviews, panels, and extemporaneous conversations are marked by his forthright manner and rigorous thinking, whether in dialogue with art critics, art historians, or his contemporaries. In one of the last interviews, he observed, â€œGenerally expensive art is in expensive, chic circumstances; itâ€™s a falsification. The society is basically not interested in art. And most people who are artists do that because they like the work; they like to do that [make art]. Art has an integrity of its own and a purpose of its own, and itâ€™s not to serve the society. Thatâ€™s been tried now, in the Soviet Union and lots of places, and it doesnâ€™t work. The only role I can think of, in a very general way, for the artist is that they tend to shake up the society a little bit just by their existence, in which case it helps undermine the general political stagnation and, perhaps by providing a little freedom, supports science, which requires freedom. If the artist isnâ€™t free, you wonâ€™t have any art.â€Â

Donald Judd Interviews is co-published by Judd Foundation and David Zwirner Books. The interviews expand upon the artistâ€™s thinking present in Donald Judd Writings (Judd Foundation/David Zwirner Books, 2016).
Country USA
Brand David Zwirner Books
Manufacturer Judd Foundation/David Zwirner Books
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 83 Illustrations, color
ReleaseDate 2019-11-12
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781644230169

Country	USA
Brand	David Zwirner Books
Manufacturer	Judd Foundation/David Zwirner Books
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	83 Illustrations, color
ReleaseDate	2019-11-12
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781644230169

Donald Judd Interviews

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