MATERIALS
A similar anti-mimetic impulse is at work in the choice of the materials. The same rejection of 'abstract expressionism' and action painting that made Andy Warhol resort to the silk-screen, makes Donald Judd resort to plywood, galvanised iron, stainless steel, plexiglass and enamelled or anodized aluminium. In doing so, he joins the preference of Constructivism, de Stijl and Bauhaus for machine-made materials devoid of every trace of the human hand. After the example of the conceptualists, Donald Judd even lets his work execute through specialized craftsmen (see: Weiner***) .
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