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Mel Bochner drawings : a retrospective

Title

Mel Bochner drawings : a retrospective / edited by Kevin Salatino ; with contributions by Mel Bochner, Anna Lovatt, and Barry Schwabsky.

Author

Bochner, Mel, 1940-

Publication

Chicago : Art Institute of Chicago, [2022]
New Haven, Connecticut : distributed by Yale Uniersity Press
©2022

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199 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour); 29 cm

Summary

Encompassing both works on paper and oversized wall drawings made from the 1960s to the present, this handsomely designed volume documents the first-ever museum retrospective of drawings by Mel Bochner (b. 1940). Drawing has long been critical to the work of this pioneering conceptual artist, and essayists explore the theoretical framework and playful experimentation of his decades-long practice. The book, conceived and designed in close collaboration with the artist, features his own writings about his philosophy of wall drawings and reflections on significant exhibitions of his work. Bochner was a key figure of the Minimalist and Conceptual Art movements whose first exhibition in 1966 is now recognized as seminal. Today the artist is known for works in a range of media that explore the conventions of language and visual art as well as the relationships between them; his experimental works on paper, canvas, and wall--all of which are celebrated here--are a foundational facet of his practice and a critical influence on contemporary art.--Publisher's website.

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Exhibition catalogs.

Note

Published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, April 23-August 22, 2022

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (192-193) and index.

Contents

Foreword / James Rondeau -- Acknowledgments / Kevin Salatin, Mel Bochner -- Bochner's labyrinths / Anna Lovatt -- Toward Contingency / Barry Schwabsky -- Pates -- Four texts on drawings / Mel Bochner ; Working drawings and other visible things on paper not necessarily meant to be viewed as art ; Anyone can learn to draw ; Drawing ; Why would anyone want to draw on the wall? -- Checklist of works -- Selected bibliography

Call Number

N6537.B578

ISBN

9780300260052
0300260059

OCLC

1295105195
on1295105195
SCSB-14252401

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Columbia University Libraries