Donald Judd: Paintings 1959-61

This book presents an important, unpublished, and unseen body of work by Donald Judd, one of the most significant artists of the 20th-century. Donald Judd remains an important artist, whose radical ideas and work continue to provoke and influence the fields of art, architecture, and design. This book focuses on one of his first mature series of work, during an intense period when he was significantly moving away from accepted traditional styles through investigations of form and colour. Featuring texts by renowned art historians and critics, Donald Judd: Paintings 1959-61 presents new scholarship on this canonical artist and demonstrates his ongoing influence. AUTHORS: Flavin Judd is Curator and Co-President of Judd Foundation. Alex Gartenfeld is Deputy Director and Chief Curator at Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami. Ellen Salpeter is Director at Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami. SELLING POINTS: . Artist: Donald Judd (1928-1994) is one of the most significant artists of the twentieth century, whose radical ideas and work continue to provoke and influence the fields of art, architecture, and design. For almost four decades, Judd exhibited regularly throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. Major exhibitions of his work include the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (1968, 1988); the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (1975); and Tate Modern, London (2004). A major retrospective of Judd’s work is forthcoming at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. . Topic: The book focuses on the first mature works by Judd, as he was significantly advancing his approach to pure abstraction. . Unseen work: Examines an important, unpublished and unseen body of work by one of twentienty century’s most significant artists.