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Donald Judd, or Cheap Furniture?

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We are really big fans of Donald Judd's furniture. We've posted his daybed here at AT before. Yet we missed one on a quiz of Donald Judd, or Cheap Furniture? by Graydon Parrish and Mikhail Simkin...

 
 

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That's still a score of 91%, but one of these pieces really suprised us. To take the quiz yourself, go to Reverent.org. Via: CribCandy.

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furniture & product designers, visual artists: photographers, painters, etc., Donald Judd

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so why all the fuss over this donald judd if his stuff is almost indistiguishable from cheap furniture? seems like a waste of money.

posted by HeatherAB on 2008-07-31 15:20:55
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Oh was it that black table that got you? That's the one that fooled me.

posted by kms102773 on 2008-07-31 15:22:44
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Easy.

posted by bepsf on 2008-07-31 15:27:23
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thats cool, i got a 92%, although most of it was just lucky guessing.

posted by plasticorange on 2008-07-31 15:31:30
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Pretty easy, since any piece with remotely any embellishment is not going to be Judd. Though, it'd be easy enough to cheat just by looking at the photos since some of pieces are in situ, while the rest are all studio-seamless/photoshopped floating.

posted by arttarte on 2008-07-31 15:46:14
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Wow! I got a 100%. Pretty impressive, considering that I've never heard of Donald Judd before, huh?

posted by Molly Margarita on 2008-07-31 15:46:20
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I Also got 100%

posted by Emmakat on 2008-07-31 15:59:35
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Way to link to a neo-con website, AT.

posted by wally3 on 2008-07-31 16:12:25
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92% Guessed wrong on the tall day bed. It's hideous! Anything in knotty pine is terrible, and I don't care for the proportions - it looks like Ikea on steroids. Egh.

posted by arza on 2008-07-31 16:13:06
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I got 92% because I stupidly clicked the wrong thing for the leaning shelf. It was an interesting exercise because now I know what proportions Judd favoured.

posted by luna on 2008-07-31 16:56:00
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That is funny. I have always had that question myself. I guess I "get" Donald Judd, but then again, maybe I don't.

posted by jenzoe on 2008-07-31 16:56:54
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I got a 100%. It was funny because I was like "...isn't that from Walmart...?"

posted by ashy on 2008-07-31 18:50:44
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Well it's not like Donald Judd was some expensive furniture designer. It's a little bizarre to compare his work in this way. What's next, comparing Carl André to the flooring section at Home Despot?

posted by charlenemcbride on 2008-07-31 21:02:40
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charlenemcbride
HA HA HA snap!

posted by frontiersperson on 2008-08-01 10:18:26
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charlenemcbride, you're dead-on with your comment. Every time Judd's work is mentioned on AT, I wonder why the fact that he was an artist working toward a specific aesthetic ideal is totally lost in the context of the post.

posted by Anna at D16 on 2008-08-05 13:23:05
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