“I object to several popular ideas. I don't think anyone's work is reductive. The most the term can mean is that new work doesn't have what the old work had. Its not so definitive that a certain kind of form is missing; a description and discussion of the kind present is pretty definitive.”

— Donald Judd

Donald Judd, ‎William C. Agee (1968) Don Judd, p. 15
1960s

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