Carl Andre in quotes, on sculpture, Minimalism & life in U.S.; free resource, American art history

**Carl Andre in quotes - the American artist on his sculpture art in Minimalism and his artistic life in the U.S. ** - free resource for students, pupils and teachers in American art history
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In his quotes the famous American artist Carl Andre reports about his favorite materials wood, stone, metal to make his sculpture art. Moreover, Andre wrote never carving into substances, nor modeling his forms. His work involves mainly the positioning of raw materials, as bricks, blocks, ingots or plates - so: real Minimal Art, in his option.

Carl Andre was a representative artist of Minimalism in the Unites States during the 1960’s. His closest artist-friend was the American painter-artist Frank Stella, also a famous artist of Minimalism in the U.S.; they exchanged many ideas and commented on each art: art-mates!
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Some selected artist-quotes of the famous American artist Carl Andre - as a short introduction of his extended quotes in the PDF:

• ’Well sure, my sculptures are floor pieces. Each one, like any area on the surface of the earth, supports a column of air that weighs – what is it? – 14.7 pounds per square inch. So in a sense, that might represent a column. It’s not an idea, it’s a sense of something you know, a demarked place. Somehow I think I always thought of it going that way.’ - quote of Andre, from a talk with the audience in the U.S., Dec. 1969

• ’We live in a world of replicas, and I try desperately in a world of replicas to produce things that are not replicas of anything.’ - quote of Carl Andre in an interview, 1972

• ’Up to a certain time I was cutting into things. Then I realized that the thing I was cutting was the cut. Rather than cut into the material, I now use the material as the cut in space.’ - Carl Andre, quoted by David Bourdon, in ‘A Redefinition of Sculpture’, in ‘Carl Andre: Sculpture 1959–1977’, New York, U.S., 1978, p. 19
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  selection of free art-resources on famous American sculptor Carl Andre:

  • extended biographical notes of Carl Andre, on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Andre
  • artist-quotes of ànd about Carl Andre, on Wikiquote: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Carl_Andre
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    editor: Fons Heijnsbroek / Matrozenhof (FotoDutch on Wikiquote):<br>[http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/User:FotoDutch]