A new annual international prize has been launched for art writers, philosophers and architects at Edinburgh University. The Judd-Hume prize is a new fellowship program spanning £30,000 for the grantee that will be chosen in the program every year and will invite them to a two-month residency to take up a research post at Edinburgh University. The Judd-Hume Prize named after the American artist Donald Judd and the Scottish philosopher David Hume. 

Architect Gottfried Boehm, a professor emeritus at the University of Basel, is the first awardee and will take up the first post, which runs from March to April next year, followed by a symposium in May and the publication of Boehm’s research. Alva Noë, a professor of philosophy at the University of California at Berkeley, has been selected for 2018.

Peter Ballantine, who fabricated around 250 of Donald Judd’s works over a 25-year period, is launching a university programme informed by the philosophies of the Missouri-born artist, as well as those of the Scottish Enlightenment thinker David Hume.

Starting in March 2017, one fellow a year will take up a research post at Edinburgh University, where Hume studied from 1723. The programme will focus on the crossover between the visual arts and philosophy and neglected topics in the existing scholarship on Judd, such as abstraction, the image, precognition, object-ness, delegated fabrication and sustainability. The programme is due to run for five years.....Continue Reading

Top image: Donald Judd, 1970. Image © Paul Katz

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