Donald Judd: 1957-1963

This is the most comprehensive exploration of Donald Judd's paintings and early works to date, providing unparalleled insight into the pivotal seven-year period in which the revered artist transitioned from two to three dimensions.

Donald Judd's radical work and thinking helped shape the look of the late twentieth century and continue to influence artists, architects, and designers worldwide. He exercised a transformative influence over the ways in which both art objects and practical designs are produced, exhibited, encountered, and used.

While primarily known for his three-dimensional sculptural work, most notably his famed "stacks" and "progressions" series, Judd began life as a painter. Between 1957 and 1963 he produced around eighty works on canvas: distinctive explorations of line, color, and non-representational composition that would directly inform the iconic three-dimensional objects that followed.

This fully illustrated volume is the most comprehensive exploration of Judd's painting and early works to date, providing unparalleled insight into that pivotal seven-year period, and tracing his transition from two to three dimensions. The book features newly commissioned photography of all of Judd's paintings, in addition to his early experiments with wall-based sculptures, as well as extended essays from three leading art historians.