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“Judd always referred to his works as 'specific objects', as works of art that, for him, existed somewhere between painting and sculpture. He described them in these terms because they derive their representational qualities on the one hand from their physical volume and the space they occupy, and on the other hand from their material appearance, their surface qualities–internal and external–their coloration and the effect created under various lighting conditions. As a result of their deliberate artificiality–expressed through a combination of dimensions, materials and coloration–Judd's works keep a safe distance from the observer and allow no interpretation.” Thomas Deecke (T. Deecke, MINIMAL MAXIMAL. Minimal Art and its influence on international art of the 1990s, Bremen, 1998, p. 145).