Equivalent I of XIV
360 firebricks · two courses ·
arranged once. still 360 bricks. still equivalent.
After Carl Andre, Equivalent VIII (1966). Andre's rule was plain: stack the bricks two courses high and keep every rectangle whose shortest side is at least three bricks. For his footprint of sixty that rule yields exactly eight. Feed the same rule a more divisible number and it yields more — here, fourteen. The matter never changes; only the count of shapes it consents to. Tate bought one in 1972; the press supplied the outrage. The price was the scandal, never the bricks.
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