Editing Carl Andre (section)

=== Early work ===
Andre cited Brâncuși as an inspiration for his early wood sculptures,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://brooklynrail.org/2014/07/artseen/the-nature-of-carl-andre|title=The Nature of Carl Andre|last=Rose|first=Barbara|date=2014-07-15|website=The Brooklyn Rail|language=en-US|access-date=2020-03-26}}</ref> but his conversations with Stella about space and form led him in a different direction. While sharing a studio with Stella, Andre developed a series of wooden "cut" sculptures<ref name="ReferenceB" /> (such as ''Radial Arm Saw cut sculpture'', 1959 and ''Maple Spindle Exercise'', 1959). Stella is noted as having said to Andre (regarding hunks of wood removed from Andre's sculpture), "Carl, that's sculpture, too."<ref name="ReferenceA" />

From 1960 to 1964, Andre worked as a freight [[brakeman]] and conductor in New Jersey for the [[Pennsylvania Railroad]]. His experience with blue collar labor and the ordered nature of conducting [[freight trains]] would later influence Andre's sculpture and artistic personality. For example, it was not uncommon for Andre to dress in [[overalls]] and a blue work shirt, even to the most formal occasions."<ref name="ReferenceA" />

During this period, Andre focused mainly on writing, and there is little notable sculpture of his on record between 1960 and 1965. His poetry resurfaced later, most notably in a book published in 1980 by [[NYU Press]] called ''12 Dialogues'', in which Andre and Hollis Frampton took turns responding to one another at a typewriter using mainly poetry and free-form essay-like texts.<ref name="ReferenceB" /> Andre's [[concrete poetry]] has been exhibited in the United States and Europe, a comprehensive collection of which is in the collection of the [[Stedelijk Museum]] in Amsterdam.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.stedelijk.nl/en/collectie/maker/380-carl-andre|title=Carl Andre|website=Stedelijk Museum|language=en|access-date=2019-05-22}}</ref>