Cuts: Texts 1959-2004.Cuts: Texts 1959-2004 by Carl Andre Carl Andre (born September 16, 1935) is an American minimalist artist. Andre was born in Quincy, Massachusetts and educated in Quincy public schools and at Philips Academy, Andover, where he became friends with Hollis Frampton and Michael Chapman. Andre served in the U.S. MIT MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press/331 pp./$45.00 (sb). Cuts is the most recent edition to the Writing Art Series published by the MIT Press. Each work of the series is a small diaristic sample of writings, poems and thoughts about artwork and the art world. Cuts, however, is unique to the series, for Andre's work, like his writing, is composed of separate pieces--cuts--reassembled in a playful and thoughtful way. The table of contents, which is eight pages long, sets the stage for the book; it is an alphabetized al·pha·bet·ize tr.v. al·pha·bet·ized, al·pha·bet·iz·ing, al·pha·bet·iz·es 1. To arrange in alphabetical order. 2. To supply with an alphabet. admixture of topics including "Childhood," "Conceptualism conceptualism, in philosophy, position taken on the problem of universals, initially by Peter Abelard in the 12th cent. Like nominalism it denied that universals exist independently of the mind, but it held that universals have an existence in the mind as concept. ," "Japan," "P.S. 1" and "Railroad." Each chapter contains some published and unpublished writings, poems, personal letters, interviews or one-line statements extracted from exhibitions. As mentioned in the introduction by James Meyer, the book's editor, "[Andre] wrote only as much as was needed and in ways that pleased him." To his credit, Andre's multifaceted mul·ti·fac·et·ed adj. Having many facets or aspects. See Synonyms at versatile. Adj. 1. multifaceted - having many aspects; "a many-sided subject"; "a multifaceted undertaking"; "multifarious interests"; "the multifarious cuts--his fancies--are enlightening and enjoyable to read. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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