Specific Objects

In this lecture, we spoke and analysed the works of Donald Judd, american minimalist sculptror who blurred the line between sculpture and painting.

- Donald Judd is often described as one of Americas' foremost minimalist sculptors [...] but he himself neither accepted the term minimalist or considered his work to be part of the sculptural tradition.

In 1965, during his crtitic careed, he published an influential article entitled "Specific Ojects" published in Arts Yearbook 8: Contemporary Sculpture.

Half or more of the best work in the last few years has been neither

painting nor sculpture. Usually it has been related, closely or distantly,

to one or the other. The work has been diverse, and much in it that is

not in painting and sculpture is also diverse.

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. The differences are greater than the

similarities.

-Donald Judd "Specific Objects" Arts Yearbook 8: Contemporary Sculpture