This is the 1970 letter that the twenty-two year old Roberta wrote to ArtForum, taking umbrage with Robert Pincus-Witten's review of Donald Judd, at Castelli.
The Pincus-Witten article, Fining It Down, was published in the June 1970 issue of Artforum. Roberta's letter ran in the October 1970 issue.
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Now it can be revealed... the Secret Origin of Roberta Smith!!!
I hope Jerry has not eaten her.
7 comments:
thats great! I also like the Bochner "bullshit" response to that other artists' accusations.
I might be wrong about this - but isn't this around the time she worked as a studio assistant for Judd?
she wrote this after more than a year of intense judd study, not sure at what point she started to work with him.
It looks like Art Forum used to be a decent magazine.
I like her a bunch. Yay, Roberta! Cogent and well-stated observations even as a pup.
Martin, you do dig up some of the most interesting things. I really did enjoy that read!
Martin - you are too much... sort of like the Harry of artbloggers. Here, here, cheers to Martin!
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