Peter N. Miller, editor, with contributions by Richard Tuttle and Renee Gladman

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.

This volume, designed by the Belgian book artist Luc Derycke as a “book as object” carries forth the challenging question of the meaning of objects. It includes an interview with Tuttle, an analysis of objects in poetic nonfiction by Renee Gladman, an essay about Tuttle’s art as the pursuit of a kind of philosophical exploration by Peter N. Miller, as well as poems by Tuttle and a short, surrealist tale about the artist’s objects. Tuttle’s objects and index cards are beautifully photographed throughout by Bruce M. White in this lavishly illustrated volume.

The catalogue is also available as a deluxe limited edition with silk ribbons, exclusively from Bard Graduate Center.

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

We Were Glowing Dark Inanimates
Renee Gladman

Tennessee Seed Pearl: Part II
Richard Tuttle

Richard Tuttle and the Open
Peter N. Miller  

Tennessee Seed Pearl: Part III
Richard Tuttle