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Statements, dialogue, letters, epigrams, and poems by sculptor Carl Andre, a central figure in minimalism.

Just as Carl Andre's sculptures are cuts of elemental materials, his writings are condensed expressions, cuts of language that emphasize the part rather than the whole. Andre, a central figure in minimalism and one of the most influential sculptors of our time, does not produce the usual critical essay. He has said that he is not a writer of prose, and the texts included in Cuts--the most comprehensive collection of his writings yet published--appear in a wide variety of forms that are pithy and poetic rather than prosaic. Some texts are statements, many of them fifty words or less, written for catalog entries and press releases. Others are Socratic dialogues, interwoven statements, or in the form of questionnaires and interviews. Still others are letters--public and private, lengthy missives and postcards. Some are epigrams and maxims (for example, on Damian Hirst: I DON'T FEAR HIS SHARK. I FEAR HIS FORMALDEHYDE) and some are planar poems, words and letters arranged and rearranged into different patterns. They are organized alphabetically by subject, under such entries as Art and Capitalism, Childhood, Entropy (After Smithson), Matter, My Work, Other Artists, and Poetry, and they include Andre's reflections on Michelangelo and Duchamp, on Stein and Marx, and such contemporaries as Eva Hesse, Robert Smithson, Robert Morris, and Damien Hirst.

Carl Andre's writing and its materiality--its stress on the visual and tactile qualities of language--takes its place beside his sculpture and its materiality, its revelation of matter as matter rather than matter as symbol. Both assert the ethical and political primacy of matter in a culture that prizes the replica, the insubstantial, and the virtual. I am not an idealist as an artist, says Andre. I try to discover my visions in the conditions of the world. It's the conditions which are important.


About the Author: Carl Andre is a sculptor and poet.

James Meyer is Associate Professor of Art History at Emory University. He is the author of Minimalism: Art and Polemics in the Sixties and the editor of The AIDS Crisis is Ridiculous and Other Writings 1986-2003 by Gregg Bordowitz (MIT Press, 2004).


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780262012157
  • Publisher: Mit Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Mit Press
  • Depth: 19
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 30 mm
  • Weight: 1164 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0262012154
  • Publisher Date: 27 May 2005
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Height: 236 mm
  • No of Pages: 340
  • Series Title: Writing Art
  • Sub Title: Texts 1959-2004
  • Width: 213 mm


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