Carl Andre (born 16 September 1935) is an artist of American Minimalism in art, recognized as sculptor for his ordered linear format and grid format sculptures.

Musée D’Art Moderne De La Ville de Paris 18 October 2016 – 12 February 2017. by SAM CORNISH His art-works involve the positioning of raw materials – such as bricks, blocks, ingots, or plates - Physical art, as he called it himself already in 1969. Listen to the cassette here. Carl Andre (born 16 September 1935) is an artist of American Minimalism in art, recognized as sculptor for his ordered linear format and grid format sculptures. The impression is of a single-path doggedly followed, but, for all that, his works are hard to ignore.

In the recording, Andre moves through the gallery describing the poems and the texts they reference, connecting his work to American history.

Tate Publishing, London and The Carl Andre and Melissa L. Kretschmer Foundation are working together to create a complete catalogue of the poems of Carl Andre. Equivalent VIII, occasionally referred to as The Bricks, is the last and most famous of a series of minimalist sculpture by Carl Andre.The exhibit comprises one-hundred-and-twenty fire bricks, arranged in two layers, in a six-by-ten rectangle.All eight structures in the series have the same height, mass and volume, but different shapes. Statements, dialogue, letters, epigrams, and poems by sculptor Carl Andre, a central figure in minimalism. Carl Andre: Sculpture As Place, 1958-2010 This tribute to the 20th-century US artist includes sculptures, poems, photographs and works on paper. Andre’s poems, which were typed on a manual typewriter or hand-written, can also be read as drawings. Tracing the full evolution over five decades of the work of Carl Andre, a crucial figure in the redefinition of contemporary sculpture, MOCA presents Carl Andre: Sculpture as Place, 1958–2010. 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.

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. Gavin Delahunty writes, "Carl Andre has also made an art of words." In 2006 Carl Andre read a selection of his poems at the Tate Modern, his first time performing to a live audience since the 1970s. Carl Andre is a leading figure among the artist of Minimalism, and there are so many artworks such as “Poems 1958-1974,” “144 Lead Square,” “Steel Aluminum Plain” wherein Carl Andre had also played important role passively. Before Carl Andre became famous as a sculptor he worked as a guard on Pennsylvania Railroad. The publication will record and illustrate some 1,500 poems made by the artist between 1957 and 2000. Although he produced several wood sculptures in the studio working along with Frank Stella, Carl Andre soon ceased sculpting. Listen to the cassette here. Tate Publishing, London and The Carl Andre and Melissa L. Kretschmer Foundation are working together to create a complete catalogue of the poems of Carl Andre (American, born September 16 1935). 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. Concrete poetry of Carl Andre Sculptures of Carl Andre first were seen in public on the exhibition «Shape and Structure» in 1965, and his fist personal show was held five years later. In 2006 Carl Andre read a selection of his poems at the Tate Modern, his first time performing to a live audience since the 1970s. From 1960 through 1964, he worked as a freight brakeman for the Pennsylvania Railroad. [Carl Andre; Lynn Kost; Museum zu Allerheiligen (Schaffhausen, Switzerland)] -- As Gavin Delahunty writes, 'Carl Andre has also made an art of words.' (2) In the most recent monograph on the artist, Alistair Rider's thorough and illuminating Carl Andre: Things in Their Elements (2011), there is an admirable attempt to consider the poems on their own terms, with two of the twelve chapters dedicated to their examination.

Carl Andre : poems. Carl Andre is the overall-clad sculptor whom many historians consider a defining figure in the development of Conceptual and Minimalist art.

Carl Andre lays words on paper just as he lays pieces of metals or bricks on the floor. With little money and time for three-dimensional art, Andre began writing poems. Legend claims that Andre began his current practice after his close friend Frank Stella called the wooden castoffs of a project sculptural objects as well; Andre has also said that Constantin Brancusi was an instrumental influence.

While he is known primarily for his sculpture, Carl Andre also produced poetry from the early 1950s to the mid 1970s. Get this from a library! His art-works involve the positioning of raw materials – such as bricks, blocks, ingots, or plates - Physical art, as he called it himself already in 1969. In the recording, Andre moves through the gallery describing the poems and the texts they reference, connecting his work to American history.