Carl Andre (1966)
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In 1976, Tate was attacked by the British Press for buying a work by the American sculptor, Carl Andre. Headlines dismissed his brick sculpture, ‘Equivalent VIII' which cost the Tate £2,297 as a load of old rubbish, and brick-a- brack art. Encouraged by the media furore, publicity seeking stunts were performed outside the Tate at Milbank such as bricklayers making their own brick sculptures in a matter of minutes and at a fraction of the price of the original Carl Andre. Simon Wilson of Tate: ‘The greatest row that's ever been in the history of Tate over a work of art was certainly that which took place in the mid-1970s over Carl Andre's brick sculpture ‘Equivalent VIII'. This consisted of a hundred and twenty fire bricks, with a kind of pure rectangle. They don't have that dent in them which is called the ‘frog' as a normal house brick has, which is where you put the cement, and they are just simply laid together in two layers of sixty each in a rectangle. It offended deeply, the very entrenched notion that the value of a work of art resides to a large extent in the amount of work that the artist has put into it. People generally tend to see art as being craft, you know, or that the craft elements of being very, very important in art, the skill element if you like. Andre's ‘Equivalent VIII' has had an enormous amount written about it and it's been enormously discussed since Tate acquired it in the early 1970s You have to consider it as a work of art in the very long tradition of Abstract Art, which offer all by the time Andre made ‘Equivalent VIII' was fifty years old essentially.”
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Diane
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Andre
In 1976, Tate was attacked by the British Press for buying a work by the American sculptor, Carl Andre. Headlines dismissed his brick sculpture, ‘Equivalent VIII' which cost the Tate £2,297 as a load of old rubbish, and brick-a- brack art. Encouraged by the media furore, publicity seeking stunts were performed outside the Tate at Milbank such as bricklayers making their own brick sculptures in a matter of minutes and at a fraction of the price of the original Carl Andre. Simon Wilson of Tate: ‘The greatest row that's ever been in the history of Tate over a work of art was certainly that which took place in the mid-1970s over Carl Andre's brick sculpture ‘Equivalent VIII'. This consisted of a hundred and twenty fire bricks, with a kind of pure rectangle. They don't have that dent in them which is called the ‘frog' as a normal house brick has, which is where you put the cement, and they are just simply laid together in two layers of sixty each in a rectangle. It offended deeply, the very entrenched notion that the value of a work of art resides to a large extent in the amount of work that the artist has put into it. People generally tend to see art as being craft, you know, or that the craft elements of being very, very important in art, the skill element if you like. Andre's ‘Equivalent VIII' has had an enormous amount written about it and it's been enormously discussed since Tate acquired it in the early 1970s You have to consider it as a work of art in the very long tradition of Abstract Art, which offer all by the time Andre made ‘Equivalent VIII' was fifty years old essentially.”
http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?cgroupid=999999961&workid=508
Diane
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