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Carl Andre

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Art is what we do and culture is what they do to us.


— Carl Andre


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I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs.


— Carl Andre


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My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.


— Carl Andre


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A place is an area within an environment that has been altered in such a way to make the general environment more conspicuous.


— Carl Andre


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Matter as matter rather than matter as symbol is a conscious political position, essentially Marxist.


— Carl Andre


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My art will reflect not necessarily conscious politics but the unanalysed politics of my life.


— Carl Andre


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It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all the time. Any living organism has an environment.


— Carl Andre


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About Carl Andre






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His sculptures range from large public artworks (such as Stone Field Sculpture 1977 in Hartford CT and Lament for the Children 1976 in Long Island City NY) to more intimate tile patterns arranged on the floor of an exhibition space (such as 144 Lead Square 1969 or Twenty-fifth Steel Cardinal 1974). Andre's controversial "Lever" was included in the seminal 1966 show at the Jewish Museum in New York entitled Primary Structures. He elected to be tried before a judge with no jury.

His sculptures range from large public artworks (such as Stone Field Sculpture 1977 in Hartford CT and Lament for the Children 1976 in Long Island City NY) to more intimate tile patterns arranged on the floor of an exhibition space (such as 144 Lead Square 1969 or Twenty-fifth Steel Cardinal 1974). Carl Andre (born September 16 1935) is an American minimalist artist recognized for his ordered linear format and grid format sculptures.

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