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2 CONTENTS Illustratons x : ART AND POLITICS 51 Author's Statement Acknowledgments Introducton: "Carl Andre, Wrter" by James Meyer ART "Art s what we do. Culture s what s done to us." (1967) "A Note on Partcpaton" (1968) "A Juror's Statement" (1970) "Art s the means..." (undated) xv I xx 1 \ 31; 31 31! 31 32^ "Dream of the Monument for Che Guevara" (to Lef Nylen) (1968) Letter to the Edtor: "Optons" n Chcago (1968) "The Artst and Poltcs: A Symposum" (1970) "What Is the Relatonshp between Poltcs and Art?" (1969) Statement, "Permeters of Protest" Panel (1975) "Carl Andre: Artworker" (1970) (Intervew by Jeanne Segel) (1970) "The hardest thng n art..." (1971) 32; The Art Workers Coalton (1989) 63 ART AND CAPITALISM 33 BERND AND HILLA BECHER 65 "Three-Vector Model" (1970) Letter to Tbor de Nagy and '. "A Note on Bernd and Hlla Becher" (wth Maranne Scharn) (1972) 65 John Myers (1967) : Letter to Sol LeWtt (1970) 37 \ Excerpt from "Art and Reproducton" (1975) 38 : Statement, "Permeters of Protest" 38! Panel (1975) "Commodty and Contradcton, or, 39 Contradcton as Commodty" (1976) (wth Jeremy Glbert-Rolfe) Art and Value (1978) 431 CONSTANTIN BRANCUSI 67 "The Great Lnk nto the Earth..." (1970) 67 Excerpt, Davd Bourdon, "The Razed Stes 67 of Carl Andre: A Sculptor Lad Low by the Brancus Syndrome" (1966) CAPITALISM 71 Advancng Captalsm (undated) 71

3 Captalsm Must Be Holy (undated) 71 Recreaton and Duplcaton (1979) 86 "The Lfe Process of Socety..." ( ) 71 ; The Grzzled Master Sergeant (2000) 87 CERTAINTY 73! "A fnte group of partcles..." (1997) 73 Uncertanty and Indetermnacy (1963) 73 "Seekng lmts s what I have always 75 ; tred to do" (1975) CHILDHOOD 77; DIALOGUE 88 "Nothng s more unsatsfactory than 8 evokng assent..." (1963) MARK Dl SUVERO 89 The Green Gallery Show (1969) 89 I Sprawlng Sculpture (1972) 89 The Frst Fve Years (undated) 77 j MARCEL DUCHAMP 91 Excerpt, ntervew wth Paul Cummngs (1972) Excerpt, taped ntervew, New York (1970) : 77 j 83 "The vvdness of our earlest 83 experences..." (1996) I "We were feral chldren..." (2000) 83 CONCEPTUALISM 84 "The Mother Scence of Conceptual Art" 84 (undated) "A thng s a hole n a thng t s not" (1968) 84 Art and Demateralzaton (1972) 84 "I have no art deas; I only have 85 art desres" (1970) "Duchamp I cannot take" (1972) 91 Aganst Duchamp (1975) "The urnal s not a work of art..." (1978) 92 ] "The 'readymade' s a molecule My works are composed of atoms" (1979) ENTROPY (AFTER SMITHSON) 95; "Nothng ever truly dsappears" (1970) 95 "In Tmes of Entropy..." (undated) 95! "God Dd Not Create the World" (undated) 95 "Metronomes Are Made..." (undated) 97 ; "Swss Watch" (undated) 97 FORM 99

4 "The forms of my work have never 99 partcularly nterested me" (1970) "I don't pck up nterestng shapes" (1972) looj The Unty of the Object and Its Percepton 1001 (1997) HOLLIS FRAMPTON 101 Holls Frampton, Part I: Andover (1972) 101 Holls Frampton, Part II: New York (1972) 102 \ Letter to the Edtor, Artforum (1976) 114 Infnty and Eternty (1997) 114 JAPAN 116 On the Gardens of Japan (1970) 116 A Ferce Calm (1972) 116J "Experencng art s an ecstatc change 116; of state" (1989) j KONRAD (FISCHER) 119! ARSHILE GORKY "Duty of Water: Gorky" (1963) My lue as an artst would nave ended long ago" (2002) 119 EVA HESSE "The questons that Eva Hesse asked..." (1989) The Body of Sculpture (1996) "An Exchange between Eva and Myself" (2002) LANGUAGE "My own mnd moves by no means of prose" (1974) "It s beng whch makes symbol possble..." (1976) SOL LEWITT HORIZONTALITY "A more effectve dsposton of mass (1997) "Sol s our Spnoza" (1969) "When You Go to Sol..." (ca. 2000) "To Sol..." (undated) Horzontalty and Vertcalty (1991) 109 LITERATURE 131 INFINITY Some Tps on Infnty (undated) Excerpt, "On Lterature and Consecutve Matters" (1962) (wth Holls Frampton) 131

5 LEE LOZANO "In the Matter of Lee Lozano" (1983) 134 "The Turner of matter" (1980) 134 "The experence of materals" (2000) MANNERS AND MORALS "The Garden of Eden" (undated) Old Materals/New Materals (1969) The Propertes of Matter (1991) 148; 148 "The Secret of Free Wll" (undated) "Dryden: 'A Wse Man Wll Never..." (undated) 135 MINIMALISM 135; "You're a mnmalst..." (2000) ; "Some knd of blankness..." (1970) 150; 150! 1501 KARL MARX Excerpt, ntervew wth Peter Fuller (1978) MASS "Mass, not volume" (1991) "Mass has no realty n two dmensons" (1982) 136; ROBERT MORRIS 136 Exchange (undated) Excerpt, ntervew wth 138 Patrca Norvell (1969) 138 Letter to the New York Tmes 138 (February 4, 1994) 153 ; 153 ; 154 I The Subtle Sense of Mass (1970) 138 OTHER ARTISTS 155! MATTER "Matter matterng" (1996) The Chemstry Set (1972) A Museum of the Elements (1972) "The cut n space" (1966) "A Word for John Chamberlan" (1972) Letter to the Edtor, Artforum (1967) Pop Art (1975/76) Pop Art (1978) Damen Hrst (undated) 155! 155 j 156! ! "I want wood as wood and steel 142 P.S ] as steel..." (1970) "Wood" (1978) 144 "About Workng at P.S. 1" (1977) 157! "It s the copper at the center of the mass of each plate..." (undated) 146

6 PAINTING 159; Aganst Photography (1972) 180 Excerpt, "On Pantng and 159! Art and Reproducton (1976) 180; Consecutve Matters"! (1962) (wth Holls Frampton)! PLACE 18l "Rotor Reflector Revew: Davd Novros" 164; "7 ne essence of my work..." (undated) 181 (1967) Sculpture as Place (1970) 181 "Brce Marden Pantngs, 166 Bykert Gallery" (1967) Place and Envronment (1970) 185 : "New n New York: Lne Work" (1967) 166 "There s no such thng as the 185 deal space" (1972) j On Matsse (1975) "Joseph Wrght or Derby's An Experment "A Vermeer must exst n an envronment..." (1979) 188 on a Brd n the Ar Pump" (1996) "Notes on a Queston Frequently Asked, 190 "My nterests le outsde 169 Never Satsfactory Answered" (1979) of pantng" (1979) PALEOLITHIC/NEOLITHIC 171 I Neolthc and Skeuomorphc (1963) 171 ; The Basket and the Bowl (1969) 171 ; "Art s a Branch of Agrculture" (1991) 172 "The rse of abstracton..." (undated) 172 : The Waves of Neolthc and 172 Paleolthc (1991) Neolthc Survval (1982) 174 PHOTOGRAPHY 175; "Essay on Photography for Holls Frampton" 175 : "(undated) j "On Photography and Consecutve Matters" 176! (1962) (wth Holls Frampton)! : POETRY 192 Excerpt, "On Lterature and 192 Consecutve Matters" (1962) (wth Holls Frampton) Excerpt, letter to Reno Odln, 192 January 5, 1964 Excerpt, letter to Reno Odln, 192 September 19, 1963 Letter to Reno Odln, June 17, Excerpt, "On Certan Poems and 196; Consecutve Matters" (March 3, 1963) (wth Holls Frampton) Apology for "Ode on the Dsappearance 199, of Indan Names" (1963) "Poetry does not supply experence" (1963) 202 j I

7 The Curve of Utterance: Chaucer, Shakespeare, Bacon (1964) Art and Conscousness (1964) Duraton and Speech (1964) 202! AUGUSTE RODIN "On a Journey to Phladelpha and Other Consecutve Matters" (1962) (wth Holls Frampton) On the Operas (1964) On Flags: An Opera for Three Voces to DeKoonng Pollock Gorky (1964) On the Opera Names (1964) RUSSIAN CONSTRUCTIVISM Tatln and Rodchenko (1970) "A Dstant Thunder" (1982) A Cut of Language (1964) Words (Preface)" (1964) Poetry and Performance (1975) 209! 210! 211 SCALE "The only sngle thng that art has s scale" (1970) The Typewrter and the Grd (1973) 212 j Poetry, Vson, Sound (1975) 212 SCULPTURE 232 On Poetry (1992) 215 "Leverwords" (1966) 232 "Essay on Sculpture for EC Goossen" (1964) 233 EZRA POUND Sculpture s a temperament" (1972) "On Sculpture and Consecutve Matters" (1962) (wth Holls Frampton) 234 I am n awe of Ezra Pound" (undated) 216 "Broken s the Hgh Column" Mchelangelo (1963) 238 QUINCY 217 Surface and Illuson (1964) 240 The great levelng of the sea..." (1970) 217 "Vsons of earth sculpture..." (1965) 241 The Quarres (1972) 217 "The sound of sculpture..." (undated) 241 Excerpt, ntervew wth Davd Sylvester (2000) 221 "My work relates to Brancus..." (1980) Pantng and Sculpture (1982) RAILROAD Mv sculptural fnshna school..." (1972') 2221.] 222! Sculpture and Death (1976) "Chantomb Ode" (1965)

8 SMALL SCULPTURE Statement about Small Sculptures (2000) "I am drawn tp what I can handle myself" (2000) 245j GERTRUDE STEIN 245 "The great natural poem about anythng 245 s ts name" (1962) I "Tme Wll Be Knd..." (undated) 265! ] DAVID SMITH Davd Smth (1970) ROBERT SMITHSON "Robert Smthson: He Always Remnded Us of the Questons We Ought to Have Asked Ourselves" (1975/78) "Our Runs Are Not Empty..." (undated) "Theory Is a Substtute for Experence" (undated) SPACE 255 Notes on Two Aspects of Space (1963) 255 "Space s the possblty of workng" (1991) 257 Space and Movement (1964) 257 "Sculpture s a road" (1970) 257 "Art s always somewhere" (1972) 259 The Styrofoam Show (1970) 259 Vsble Space and Tangble Space (1976) 263 "Art... must be seen to be done" (undated) 263 FRANK STELLA "Preface to Strpe Pantng" (1959) "That's sculpture, too" (1972) Reflectons on BLAM! (1984) Frank Stella n 1959 (undated) On the Awardng of Medals (1979) "When I hold your bandshell to my ear..." (undated) SYMMETRY "Any task can be accomplshed..." (1991) Anaxal Symmetry (1970) THEORY "My works do not explan the world..." (1991) Art Theory (1999) TIME "A lfetme s not long enough..." (1976) "There are at least three dfferent dmensons to a work of art" (1991) "We Lve n Eternty..." (undated) ! 267 : ; j

9 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 278! "Detocquevlle" (undated) 278 "Only the Herd" (undated) 278 ; "George W Bush" (2001) 281 ] UPROARS 282! Art and Notorety (1976) 282 The Brcks Affar (1978) 282 \ "The Brcks Abstract" (1976) MY WORK 288! "Preface to My Work Itself" (1967) 288 "I have never sought..." (undated) 289; The Hedgehog and the Fox (2000) 289' On Walkng Past Hs Sculpture (1972) 289! Sculpture and Touch (1976) 290! The Dalectc between Two States (1975) 290 My Work (1966) 291 "It s mpossble to make work devod of 291 human assocatons..." (1979) "Stllness, Slence, Peace" (1997) 294 Notes Bblography compled by Jeffrey Thompson Index