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Holy Minimalist! Donald Judd’s 13,000 Book Library is now Online

In Section: NY comPRESSed Posted By: Carter-Maness Thursday, May 6,2010
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Minimalism geeks, your month is about to get super busy. The Judd Foundation, an organization that handles the hefty estate of Marfa, Tex.-via-New-York artist Donald Judd, has just launched a website with a digitized version of the minimalism godfather’s 13,004 book library for free public consumption. The archive spans over 40 years of diverse collecting and includes a nearly endless series of texts on art, science, philosophy and cultural theory referenced by Judd throughout his storied and influential career.

“We are extremely excited to unveil this new tool,” Judd Foundation executive director Barbara Hunt McLanahan said in a press statement. “One of the Foundation’s primary goals is to maintain and preserve the properties Judd owned in Marfa and New York and to facilitate public access to them. We saw this project as critical because it makes available to a much broader audience an extraordinary resource. Many students, scholars and followers of Judd’s work might not have the opportunity to visit the physical library in Marfa, but they can now see it from anywhere in world, exactly as if they were standing in front of the shelves.”

She ain’t lying. Go to the site and you’ll find a full geographical layout of the library. You can wander through the halls by clicking on a layout map that connects to actual photographs of Judd’s bookshelves or choose your poison by subject, author or title. While the Judd library doesn’t lend, they’re happy to get you the reference and location information to find a local library that has the text you desire.

Props to Ryan Tainter, the project’s digital designer and head librarian, for the tip.

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