Carl Andre. Sculpture as Place 1958 - 2010: Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin
by Yasmil Raymond, Philippe Vergne, Phyllis Tuchman, Brooke Holmes, Arnauld Pierre
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König, Walther, 2016 2016. Hardcover, 400 seiten , Deutsch, 285 x 225 mm, Neu, Schutzumschlag, mit abbildungen in Farbe und s/w. ISBN 3863359291. Carl Andre born 1935 American Minimal sculptor and poet. Born in Quincy, Massachusetts. In 1954 worked for Boston Gear Works and travelled to England and France. Served in the US Army 1955-6. In 1957 moved to New York and worked for a publisher. Wrote poetry and made drawings and some abstract sculptures in perspex and wood, with geometric forms. Influenced by Brancusi and by Stella, his close friend. 1960-4 worked as railroad freight brakesman and conductor on the Pennsylvania Railroad; made few sculptures, but these show move away from carving to works constructed out of simple blocks of material. His sculpture first exhibited in a group show in 1964, followed by his first one-man exhibition at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, 1965; major retrospective exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1970. Made floor sculptures out of standard industrial units such as bricks or metal plates in simple arithmetic combinations; also experimented with scattered blocks and pieces of bent pipe, etc. Lives in New York.
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- Carl Andre. Sculpture as Place 1958 - 2010: Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin
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- Yasmil Raymond, Philippe Vergne, Phyllis Tuchman, Brooke Holmes, Arnauld Pierre
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