Equivalent VIII

During the spring of 1966, “Primary Structures” broadcast the emergence of minimalism to a broader public. Although Bochner identified Judd, Morris, Andre, Flavin...

Andre stands out from most of his Minimalist contemporaries by placing himself as a sculptor rather than as an artist who moved out into three dimensions from a practice inspired by recent modernist painting such as Jackson Pollock’s and Barnett Newman’s. He insisted that he had ‘always been drawn toward mass and weight and three-dimensional stuff and, more candidly than many other sculptors and architects for whom ‘representation, or portrayal’ were at best peripheral to their thinking, he was …