Richard Tuttle: what is the object?

Abstract

"For Richard Tuttle (b. 1941), the object, and the work, is intended for communication. Where others find in history answers to the questions objects pose, Tuttle, instead, finds the questions that drive his art—asking us to think about what objects mean, and how. Richard Tuttle: What Is the Object? is the first publication to explore the influential American artist’s object collection and the cards on which he has recorded his thoughts about these items over the past five decades"-- Website Bard Graduate Center.

Contents

Director's foreword / Susan Weber -- Focus Project director's foreword / Nina Stritzler-Levine -- Into consciousness / Richard Tuttle -- What are these stories for? / Peter N. Miller and Richard Tuttle -- Looking at things / Richard Tuttle -- Tennessee seed pearl : Part I / Richard Tuttle -- Objects -- We were glowing dark inanimates / Renee Gladman -- Tennessee seed pearl : Part II / Richard Tuttle -- Objects -- Richard Tuttle and the open / Peter N. Miller -- Tennessee seed pearl : Part III / Richard Tuttle -- Objects.