Visual Art: Minimal art presented with a maximal effect Carl Andre Whitechapel Gallery, London

The Independent - London | July 16, 2000| | Copyright

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 outrage is still measured. Just by employing simple forms such as firebricks, and placing these in neat, tidy piles, Andre aroused public indignation in the 1970s that would be the envy of today's artists, now trapped in the negative equity of the shocking.

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