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Having spent the 1960s making abstract paintings, Peter Hutchinson suddenly dropped the medium in 1968 and joined those artists who were fleeing the art world for sites far from the traditional gallery. Quickly achieving prominence as a builder of earthworks, Hutchinson did much to open up the possibilities for art in the aftermath of Minimalism. A restless innovator, he has been particularly successful in reshaping the relations between language and photographic imagery. Among his recent works, I especially like Palindrome I (2002), which has the look of an outsized postcard. Sent to no one in particular, it is meant for all of us.
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Peter Hutchinson, “Mannerism in the Abstract,” in Gregory Battcock, ed. Minimalism: An Anthology (New York: E. P. Dutton, 1968), 187–94.
William S. Rubin, Frank Stella, exhibition catalog (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1970), 12–13.
Frank Stella, in Bruce Glaser, “Questions to Stella and Judd” (1966), in Battcock, ed. Minimalism, 158.
Peter Hutchinson, conversation with the author, June 15, 2000, New York.
Peter Hutchinson, quoted in Lucy Lippard, Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972 (New York: Praeger, 1973), 95, 145.
Peter Hutchinson, “Notes on Thrown Ropes Pieces.” Unpublished statement, 2005.
Peter Hutchinson, conversation with the author, April 3, 2005.
James Collins, “Story Art,” in New York Magazine (October 28, 1974): 21.
Ibid.
Peter Hutchinson, conversation with the author, April 3, 2005.
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Ratcliff, C. (2006). Hutchinson’s Travels. In: Thrown Rope. Princeton Archit.Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-56898-644-0_1
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