Oral history interview with Carl Andre
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 2 sound tape reels. Reformatted in 2010 as 4 digital wav files. Duration is 4 hrs., 9 minutes.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Andre, Carl, 1935-
label: Interviewer
content: Cummings, Paul
label: Names
content: Chapman, Michael, 1935-
label: Names
content: Frampton, Hollis, 1936-
label: Names
content: Martin, Agnes, 1912-2004
label: Names
content: Morgan, Maud, 1903-1999
label: Names
content: Morgan, Patrick, 1904-
label: Names
content: Rose, Barbara
label: Names
content: Stella, Frank
topic: label: Topic
content: Sculpture, Modern -- 20th century -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Topic
content: Sculptors -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: These interviews are part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and others.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Andre, Carl, 1935-
label: Interviewer
content: Cummings, Paul
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Carl Andre (1935-2024) was a sculptor from New York, New York.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 68 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1972 September
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.andre72sep
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Use of this interview, with permission, requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives of American Art reading rooms.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: 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.