Carl Andre: Poems (English/German)

Edited by Lynn Kost. Texts by Gavin Delahunty, Lynn Kost, Valérie Mavridorakis

ISBN 10: 3037643641 / ISBN 13: 9783037643648

Published by JRP | Ringier, 2014

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Z : 28 x 27 cm, 144 Seiten/pages, 100 color & 10 b/w illustrations - JRP|Ringier is publishing a retrospective monograph which presents the artist's poems. Carl Andre lays words on paper just as he lays pieces of metals or bricks on the floor. Formed by letters piled up in blocks of words assembled together, on top of each other, these poems, which he has written since the 1960s, arise as "sculptural configurations." In the tradition of concrete poetry, words become adjustable entities moved around and placed within the limits of the space of the sheet of paper in order to create new configurations and patterns, and eventually new works of art. "Andre [ … ] understands the word as a concrete module, similar to the squares of industrial metal, wooden timbers, or bricks in his signature three-dimensional pieces," writes Rob Weiner. The book includes essays by art historians Gavin Delahunty and Valérie Mavridorakis, as well as curator Lynn Kost, and situates Carl Andre's written works within their initial context in the 1960s at a time when Minimalism was being defined.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Carl Andre: Poems (English/German)
• Publisher: JRP | Ringier
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3037643641
• ISBN 13: 9783037643648
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1. Auflage
• Condition: Sehr gut
• Seller catalogs:
  • Konzeptkunst
  • Artist Book
  • art theory

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Synopsis

Carl Andre (born 1935) was a poet before he was an artist, and between 1960 and 1965 he produced a substantial body of innovative visual poetry. Arranging language on paper as carefully and as sculpturally as he was later to arrange pieces of metal or bricks on the floor, Andre approached words as adjustable entities, to be moved around within the limits of the space of the sheet of paper. These works, made during the height of the international Concrete poetry movement, appeared alongside his sculptures in exhibitions and were excerpted in scholarly writings about the artist. With this volume, Andre’s influential poetic oeuvre is now gathered comprehensively for the first time. The poems, which were often typed on 8 x 11 paper, are reproduced in quasi-facsimile, to convey Andre’s sculptural intentions. Also included are essays by art historians Gavin Delahunty and Valérie Mavridorakis, and curator Lynn Kost.

About the Author

Carl Andre is a sculptor and poet.