Carl Andre
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition | Date: 2008
Carl Andre , 1935-, American sculptor, b. Quincy, Mass. A former student of Patrick Morgan and Frank Stella, Andre produces sculptures of elemental, classic form. His works reflect the quarries, shipyards, and islands of his birthplace and his years spent as a freight-train brakeman. One of the founders of the minimalist sculpture movement, he is famous for his floor pieces, including Lever (1966), in which fire bricks were arranged to extend laterally 400 feet (122 m) from a gallery wall. In 1988, he was tried and acquitted of pushing his wife, land art sculptor Ana Mendiata, to her death from the window of their 34th-floor apartment.
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Arts: A row of bricks or part of our cultural edifice?
The Independent - London; 5/4/1996; THOMAS SUTCLIFFE; 787 words
; It is good to see the bricks back again. I refer to Carl Andre's low rectangular arrangement of firebricks, one of the more inflammatory works of art of modern times. They haven't, of course, actually been in hiding since their last public outing, but their visibility has undoubtedly been in
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The Arts: The silence of critics All the reviews of Carl Andre's new exhibition of sculpture mentioned the Bricks, but not his trial for his wife's murder and the controversial acquittal. Why?
The Independent - London; 7/19/2000; Michael Mewshaw; 787 words
; ... type. None the less, on the basis of circumstantial evidence, Carl Andre was arrested and indicted for his wife's murder. The news reverberated through the American art community, provoking debates that persist to this day. Mendieta's friends theorised that ...
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Carl Andre at Whitechapel Gallery and Paula Cooper.(Brief Article)
Art in America; 2/1/2001; Diehl, Carol; 402 words
; Carl Andre, ho-hum, I thought as I trekked toward London's Whitechapel Gallery, I could be shopping. My retail expedition was thwarted by a photo of Andre's work in a Times glimpsed over the shoulder of a fellow tube passenger. Far from the stolid grids of metal floor plates I'd come to associate
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Visual Art: Minimal art presented with a maximal effect Carl Andre Whitechapel Gallery, London
The Independent - London; 7/16/2000; Neal Brown; 489 words
; It's difficult to dislike Carl Andre - he of Tate bricks fame - if only for having offended generations of grunting tabloid editors, and their pig-eyed readers. Without using blood, corpses, penises, vaginas or excrement, and without even intending to shock, Andre set the absolute standard by which
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Carl Andre, Cuts: Texts 1959-2004.(Book Review)
Parachute: Contemporary Art Magazine; 1/1/2006; Watson, Petra Rigby; 322 words
; Carl Andre, Cuts: Texts 1959-2004, edited with an introduction by James Meyer, Cambridge, MA and London, UK: MIT Press, 2005, 352 pp., ill. b. & w. With its remarkably astute cover, this comprehensive collection of interviews, statements, letters and poems, many previously unpublished, is a
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Builders' merchant a fitting host for homage to brickwork art.(News)
Daily Post (Liverpool, England); 5/10/2005; 215 words
; A BUILDERS' merchant will become a gallery for a new brickwork art piece. Richard Williams Ltd is one of many unusual venues in Ruthin to host art work for this year's Focal Festival, which starts on June 25. Others include an electrical goods shop and a travel agent. The piece was commissioned by
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The Shape of Death
The Washington Post; 6/3/1990; Lee Seldes; 787 words
; NAKED BY THE WINDOW The Fatal Marriage of Carl Andre and Ana Mendieta By Robert Katz Atlantic Monthly Press. 428 pp. $19.95 JUST BEFORE dawn in Greenwich Village on Sunday, Sept. 8, 1985, a beautiful, ambitious Cuban-born artist named Ana Mendieta plunged 34 floors to her death. She was 35 years
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Far out
The Village Voice; 3/18/1997; Peter Schjeldahl; 787 words
; Carl Andre Ace Gallery 275 Hudson Street Through March 29 Clink. Clack. I was walking across a Carl Andre sculpture the other dav in the vast, echoey Ace Gallery-the Nuremberg parade ground of exhibition spaces around here--and thinking things over. The small noises of the floor piece's ever so
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Where art is not so much off the wall as between the bricks . . .(News)
Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales); 5/16/2005; 635 words
; Byline: By Mari Ropstad Western Mail It is fair to say that bricks are something we are all familiar with in Wales. The endless rows of terraced brick houses are as much a part of our everyday life as a traditional cup of tea. Now you can even see bricks at an art gallery in Wales - they are an
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PICK OF THE WEEK
The Independent - London; 5/7/1996; 159 words
; William Morris The long-awaited Morris centenary jamboree is finally here and with it your chance to decide whether the late, great Pre-Raphaelite associate and founder of the Arts & Crafts movement was a visionary or simply misguided. A comprehensive survey of his work - wallpaper, furniture,
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