写真は被写体の竣工年順に並べられ、建築作品の基本情報に加え、本書デザイナー・高室湧人が描きおこした図面に、多木の撮影地点をプロットした資料が添えられます。さらに2本のテキスト、多木が篠山紀信写真集『家 Meaning of the House』(潮出版, 1975)に寄せた19編のエッセイのひとつ「家のことば」と、文化人類学者・今福龍太の書き下ろし「家々は海深く消え去りぬ 多木浩二の『反-建築写真』」を収録します。
The first retrospective in 30 years on American maverick Donald Judd’s minimalist sculpture, architecture and furniture
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.
