5th Chinati Symposium This Weekend
The Writings of Donald Judd
A symposium to be hosted by the Chinati Foundation on May 3 and 4, 2008.
The Chinati Foundation is pleased to announce a symposium dedicated to the writings of the late artist and the museum’s founder Donald Judd. Eleven participants will present lectures on a range of topics, including the relationship of Judd’s writing and his art; his use of language; how Judd produced and edited his writings; his views on politics and architecture; his philosophical influences; and the relevance of his writings today. The weekend program will be moderated by Prof. Richard Shiff of the University of Texas, Austin and will feature the following lectures:
Allan Antliff, Ph.D., Canada Research Chair in Art History, University of Victoria, Canada: Donald Judd’s “First Element”: An Anarchist Genealogy
Mel Bochner, Artist and Critic, New York: Judd: His Writing and Influence
Richard Ford, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus and former Chairman, Department of Languages and Linguistics, The University of Texas at El Paso: Donald Judd - Wordsmith
Thomas Kellein, Ph.D., Director, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany: Basic Assumptions
David Rabinowitch, Artist, New York and Wiesbaden, Germany: Statements Relevant to Don Judd’s Notion of “Object”
David Raskin, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Art History,
Theory and Criticism, School of the Art Institute of Chicago: “Judd’s Scale”
Richard Shiff (Director of the Center for the Study of Modernism at the University of Texas, Austin): Specificity
Roberta Smith, Art Critic, The New York Times: Specific Objects: the Essay, the Art, the Misunderstanding
Karen Stein, Architectural Critic, New York: “The Plain Beauty of Well-Made Things”
Ann Temkin, Ph.D., Curator, Museum of Modern of Art, New York: Barnett Newman and Donald Judd: Artist as Polemicist
Nicola von Velsen, Editor, DuMont Literatur und Kunst Verlag, Cologne: Bilderstreit: Iconoclastic Controversy and Language Battles
Limited seats are still available for the weekend program; reservations can be made by calling Chinati at (432) 729-4362. Portions of the symposium will be broadcast live by Marfa Public Radio (KRTS) at 93. 5 FM and over the internet at www.marfapublicradio.org
The Writings of Donald Judd is the fifth symposium organized by the Chinati Foundation, following Art and the Landscape (1995), Art and Architecture (1998), Light in Architecture and Art: The Work of Dan Flavin (2001), and It’s All in the Fit: The Work of John Chamberlain (2006). It will be documented in a paperback volume to be published by the museum later in the year.
A symposium to be hosted by the Chinati Foundation on May 3 and 4, 2008.
The Chinati Foundation is pleased to announce a symposium dedicated to the writings of the late artist and the museum’s founder Donald Judd. Eleven participants will present lectures on a range of topics, including the relationship of Judd’s writing and his art; his use of language; how Judd produced and edited his writings; his views on politics and architecture; his philosophical influences; and the relevance of his writings today. The weekend program will be moderated by Prof. Richard Shiff of the University of Texas, Austin and will feature the following lectures:
Allan Antliff, Ph.D., Canada Research Chair in Art History, University of Victoria, Canada: Donald Judd’s “First Element”: An Anarchist Genealogy
Mel Bochner, Artist and Critic, New York: Judd: His Writing and Influence
Richard Ford, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus and former Chairman, Department of Languages and Linguistics, The University of Texas at El Paso: Donald Judd - Wordsmith
Thomas Kellein, Ph.D., Director, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany: Basic Assumptions
David Rabinowitch, Artist, New York and Wiesbaden, Germany: Statements Relevant to Don Judd’s Notion of “Object”
David Raskin, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Art History,
Theory and Criticism, School of the Art Institute of Chicago: “Judd’s Scale”
Richard Shiff (Director of the Center for the Study of Modernism at the University of Texas, Austin): Specificity
Roberta Smith, Art Critic, The New York Times: Specific Objects: the Essay, the Art, the Misunderstanding
Karen Stein, Architectural Critic, New York: “The Plain Beauty of Well-Made Things”
Ann Temkin, Ph.D., Curator, Museum of Modern of Art, New York: Barnett Newman and Donald Judd: Artist as Polemicist
Nicola von Velsen, Editor, DuMont Literatur und Kunst Verlag, Cologne: Bilderstreit: Iconoclastic Controversy and Language Battles
Limited seats are still available for the weekend program; reservations can be made by calling Chinati at (432) 729-4362. Portions of the symposium will be broadcast live by Marfa Public Radio (KRTS) at 93. 5 FM and over the internet at www.marfapublicradio.org
The Writings of Donald Judd is the fifth symposium organized by the Chinati Foundation, following Art and the Landscape (1995), Art and Architecture (1998), Light in Architecture and Art: The Work of Dan Flavin (2001), and It’s All in the Fit: The Work of John Chamberlain (2006). It will be documented in a paperback volume to be published by the museum later in the year.
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