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Carl Andre’s work - Magnesium Square Many of the new media and the new genres developed in the later period of twentieth century were Theresa Ann Gill History of Performance equally dependent on the notion that it was the idea that lay behind a work of art that counted, rather than the traditional notions of craftsmanship or the importance of a work being produced by the hand of the artist who had signed it. Minimalist sculptors such as Donald Judd, Carl Andre and Robert Morris, often used pre-made objects such as bricks or metal sheets in their works. They also tried to give their sculptures the look and feel of mass-produced, machine-tooled products-an effect heightened by their tendency to repeat forms and compositional units in their compositions. Andre too has always been a performer without stage or curtain. He bows for admiration, while he subverts the distinction between actor and audience. He restructures the world, while he refuses a privileged place within it (Sandler, 16-18). From the first drawings scrawled on cave walls like graffiti, art has shouted, pleaded, seduced, and cajoled: "Look at me." Often it served kings and churches. Increasingly it had to please new wealth—or the artist alone. Either way