Jump to content
Main menu
Main menu
move to sidebar
hide
Navigation
Main page
Recent changes
Random page
Help about MediaWiki
Special pages
Niidae Wiki
Search
Search
Appearance
Create account
Log in
Personal tools
Create account
Log in
Pages for logged out editors
learn more
Contributions
Talk
Editing
Carl Andre
(section)
Page
Discussion
English
Read
Edit
View history
Tools
Tools
move to sidebar
hide
Actions
Read
Edit
View history
General
What links here
Related changes
Page information
Appearance
move to sidebar
hide
Warning:
You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you
log in
or
create an account
, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.
Anti-spam check. Do
not
fill this in!
== Early life == Andre was born on September 16, 1935, in [[Quincy, Massachusetts]], the youngest of the three children of George (a master designer of freshwater plumbing for ships<ref>{{Cite magazine|last=Tomkins|first=Calvin|date=2011-11-27|title=The Materialist|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/12/05/the-materialist|access-date=2024-02-07|magazine=The New Yorker|language=en-US|issn=0028-792X}}</ref>) and Margaret (Johnson) Andre.<ref name="Kennedy-2024">{{Cite news|last=Kennedy|first=Randy|date=2024-01-24|title=Carl Andre, 88, Austerely Minimalist Sculptor, Is Dead|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/24/arts/carl-andre-dead.html|access-date=2024-01-27|work=The New York Times|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> He completed primary and secondary schooling in the Quincy public school system and studied art at [[Phillips Academy]] in [[Andover, Massachusetts]], from 1951 to 1953.<ref name="ReferenceA">''Naked by the Window,'' by Robert Katz published 1990 by The Atlantic Monthly Free Press {{ISBN|0-87113-354-7}}</ref> While at Phillips Academy, he became friends with [[Hollis Frampton]], who would later influence Andre's radical approach to sculpture through their conversations about art<ref name="ReferenceB">''12 Dialogues,'' Carl Andre and Hollis Frampton 1962–1963 published by Nova Scotia College of Art and Design Press and New York University Press, edited by Benjamin HD Buchloh {{ISBN|0-8147-0579-0}}</ref> and through introductions to other artists.<ref name="ReferenceC">''Minimalism: Art and Polemics in the Sixties,'' edited by James Meyer, published 2004 by Yale University Press {{ISBN|0-300-10590-8}}, {{ISBN|978-0-300-10590-2}}</ref> Andre served in the [[U.S. Army]] in [[North Carolina]] from 1955 to 1956, and moved to New York City in 1956. While in New York, Frampton introduced Andre to [[Constantin Brâncuși]], through whom Andre became re-acquainted with a former classmate from Phillips Academy, [[Frank Stella]], in 1958. Andre shared studio space with Stella from 1958 through 1960.<ref name="ReferenceC" />
Summary:
Please note that all contributions to Niidae Wiki may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here.
You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see
Encyclopedia:Copyrights
for details).
Do not submit copyrighted work without permission!
Cancel
Editing help
(opens in new window)
Search
Search
Editing
Carl Andre
(section)
Add topic