Judd taught at the Allen-Stevenson School in the 1960s, the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences (1962–64), Dartmouth College in Hanover (1966), and Yale University in New Haven (1967).īeginning in 1983, he taught on art and its link to architecture at colleges around the United States, Europe, and Asia.ĭuring his lifetime, Judd wrote a substantial corpus of theoretical papers in which he vigorously championed the cause of Minimalist Art these essays were released in two volumes in 19. He is widely regarded as the foremost worldwide proponent of “minimalism,” as well as its most prominent theorist, thanks to works such as “Specific Objects” (1964). Judd sought autonomy and clarity for the manufactured item and the space it produced in his work, eventually reaching a strictly democratic presentation devoid of compositional hierarchy. Donald Clarence Judd (J– February 12, 1994) was an American minimalist artist (a term he rejected strongly).
