Carl Andre.WHITECHAPEL ART GALLERY In Britain, Carl Andre's work has been both reviled and revered. On the one hand, the Tate Gallery Tate Gallery, London, originally the National Gallery of British Art. The original building (in Millbank on the former site of Millbank Prison), with a collection of 65 modern British paintings, was given by Sir Henry Tate and was opened in 1897. It was extended by another gift of Tate's in 1899, and in 1910 the Turner wing was completed, the gift of Sir Joseph Duveen.'s 1976 acquisition of Andre's Equivalent VIII (The Bricks) was greeted with tabloid outrage; on the other, the Whitechapel honored the artist with a full-scale survey but two short years later. Substantial displays followed at the Saatchi Gallery in 1985 and at Oxford's Museum of Modern Art modern art, art created from the 19th cent. to the mid-20th cent. by artists who veered away from the traditional concepts and techniques of painting, sculpture, and other fine arts that had been practiced since the Renaissance (see Renaissance art and architecture). Nearly every phase of modern art was initially greeted by the public with ridicule, but as the shock wore off, the various movements settled into history, influencing and inspiring new generations of in 1996. Now Whitechapel programming head Judith Nesbitt will close the circle with the most ambitious British effort to date: thirty works from 1965 to the present, early documentary photos by Hollis Frampton, and the artist's poetry. Andre's art is well suited to this extended, extensive treatment: Only then does its rich diversity really become apparent. July 7-Aug. 27. |
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