Oral history interview with Carl Andre

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Oral history interview with Carl Andre

1972 September

Interview of Carl Andre conducted 1972 September, by Paul Cummings, for the Archives of American Art. Andre speaks of his family and education at Phillips Andover Academy and Kenyon College and classes with Patrick and Maud Morgan. He discusses his interest in Brancusi; Ezra Pound as a critic of sculpture; the relationship between painting, sculpture, prose, and poetry; materials and methods including his "theory of masonry"; exhibitions at Hunter College, the Tibor de Nagy, Dwan, and Konrad Fisher Galleries; the appeal of Japanese art; artists' rights and art and language. He recalls his employment at the Boston Gear Works, Prentice-Hall Publishing Company, and the Pennsylvania Railroad and reminisces about Michael Chapman, Hollis Frampton, Agnes Bernice Martin, Frank Stella, Barbara E. Rose, and others.

Sound recording: 2 sound tape reels ; 5 in.Transcript: 68 p.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7609616

Archives of American Art

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Morgan, Maud

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Rose, Barbara

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André, Carl 1935-...

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Morgan, Patrick (American painter, 1904-1940)

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Stella, Frank, 1945-

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Frank Stella (1936- ) is a painter, printmaker, and sculptor from New York, N.Y. From the description of Frank Stella papers, 1941-1993, bulk, 1978-1989. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79000719 Painter (New York, N.Y.). From the description of Frank Stella interview, 1969. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220180337 Frank Stella (b. 1936) achieved professional recognition at a young age and soon became internationally prominent and influential....

Chapman, Michael, 1935-....

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