{"id":6095,"title":"Billy Builder, or the Painfull Machine: A Novel of Velocity","dimensions":"22.8 x 15 cm, 31 p, language: English, publisher: Tracks: A Journal of Artists' Writings. Chapters I-IV. In: Tracks 2:2, 1976. Chapters V-XI. In: Tracks 2:3, 1976. Chapters XII-XVI In: Tracks 3:1 and 2, 1977.","date_begin":"1959-01-01","material":"ink, paper","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":26,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":1,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA, Antwerp","cached_tag_list":"artist novel","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"","stream_count_app":20,"permalink":"billy-builder-or-the-painfull-machine-a-novel-of-velocity","description_ca":null,"short_description_ca":null,"description_it":null,"short_description_it":null,"cached_primary_asset_url":null,"cached_actor_names":null,"hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":true,"category":{"en":"Book","nl":"Boek","fr":"Livre"},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/024/101/large/carl_andre_tracks.jpg?1404487129","poster_credits":"© 2014 Specific Object | David Platzker ","translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiterary synopsis\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Carl Andre\u0026rsquo;s cycle of writings \u003cem\u003eBilly Builder, or the Painfull Machine: A Novel of Velocity\u003c/em\u003e stalk Andre\u0026rsquo;s interest in the stricture of material and have a lightness of interpretative touch that lifts his text into symbol. \u0026#39;\u0026#39;On the following Sunday, unbeknownst to Billy Builder, Mother Builder and Mundane Carpenter, Garson Fanshot, son of the Fanshot millions, returned to Onus Falls from his student days at Old Farmer\u0026rsquo;s Preparatory School. Wishing to surprise his best summer friend, Garson went immediately to the modest Builder Cottage and slipped into Billy\u0026rsquo;s basement laboratory through a little-used passage in the root cellar. Garson moved silently toward the laboratory, but the sight of Mundane Carpenter and Billy Builder leaning together over the Periodic Table caused him to emit a nearly audible gasp.\u0026#39;\u0026#39; You get the sense in this opening passage that Andre enjoyed (and was rather good at) the process of writing; his playful placement of character and object are used to encourage the reader to make their own narrative with phrases such as \u0026lsquo;the Periodic Table\u0026rsquo; taking the part of two nouns at once. Although published serially, when read together \u003cem\u003eBilly the Builder\u003c/em\u003e moves beyond the apologue into a novel-like discourse, there is a distinct leakage of Andre\u0026rsquo;s practice as text becomes form and yet also discusses it.\u0026quot;\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Maria Fusco, \u0026lsquo;How Hard It Is To Die\u0026rsquo;, Metropolis M, no. 2, 2010.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRelation of the novel to the artist\u0026rsquo;s practice\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBilly Builder, or the Painfull Machine: A Novel of Velocity\u003c/em\u003e is a novel published in three consecutive issues of the periodical Tracks: A Journal of Artists\u0026#39; Writings (1976-1977).\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://www.specificobject.com/objects/info.cfm?inventory_id=11161\u0026amp;object_id=10560\u0026amp;page=2\u0026amp;search=tracks%20journal\u0026amp;sort=pubdate\u0026amp;options=all#.UoIoWOKQOKJ\"\u003eNovel\u0026#39;s website\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiteraire synopsis\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Carl Andre\u0026rsquo;s cyclus teksten *Billy Builder, or the Painfull Machine: A Novel of Velocity* (1959) toont Andre\u0026rsquo;s interesse in de beperking van materiaal en heeft een lichtheid van interpretatie die zijn tekst tot symbool verheft. \u0026#39;\u0026#39;On the following Sunday, unbeknownst to Billy Builder, Mother Builder and Mundane Carpenter, Garson Fanshot, son of the Fanshot millions, returned to Onus Falls from his student days at Old Farmer\u0026rsquo;s Preparatory School. Wishing to surprise his best summer friend, Garson went immediately to the modest Builder Cottage and slipped into Billy\u0026rsquo;s basement laboratory through a little-used passage in the root cellar. Garson moved silently toward the laboratory, but the sight of Mundane Carpenter and Billy Builder leaning together over the Periodic Table caused him to emit a nearly audible gasp.\u0026#39;\u0026#39; In deze openingspassage krijg je het gevoel dat Andre genoot van het schrijfproces (en er behoorlijk goed in was). Zijn speelse plaatsing van personage en voorwerp dient om de lezer aan te moedigen een eigen verhaal te maken met zinsdelenals \u0026lsquo;the Periodic Table\u0026rsquo; die twee zelfstandige naamwoorden tegelijk innemen. Wanneer de afzonderlijk gepubliceerde delen tesamen worden gelezen, gaat Billy the Builder verder dan een apoloog en in de richting van een romanachtig discours. Er is een duidelijke lek van Andre\u0026rsquo;s praktijk: tekst wordt vorm, maar bediscussieert die tegelijk.\u0026quot;\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Maria Fusco, \u0026lsquo;How Hard It Is To Die\u0026rsquo;, Metropolis M, no. 2, 2010. [Novel website](https://www.specificobject.com/objects/info.cfm?inventory_id=11161\u0026amp;object_id=10560\u0026amp;page=2\u0026amp;search=tracks%20journal\u0026amp;sort=pubdate\u0026amp;options=all#.UoIoWOKQOKJ)\u003c/p\u003e"},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[{"id":236,"name":"Carl Andre","category":{"en":"Author","nl":"Auteur","fr":"Auteur"}}]}