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confuse them with art." To one side in this mise
en scene is a chair of a different ilk, graceful
and mysteriously tall, like a Chinese chair, yet
distinctly homespun, one of the two thousand
some objects Judd collected during travels
abroad, visits to local antique shops and bazaars
and exchanges with fellow artists and dealers.
This humble chair, more made than designed, is
evidence of Judd's almost infallible eye, a gift for
discovering beauty even in an aesthetic that was
not, strictly speaking, his own. Beside it resides,
rising like a tall, thin Giacometti, an object of
both immanence and elegance: an Etruscan
bronze sconce. We are led to ask, is the chair a
19th century American artifact, or is it, like the
sconce, the rare relic of an extinct civilization?
By thus juxtaposing his finds, Judd prods us
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