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Solar System & Rest Rooms: Writings and Interviews, 1965–2007 (Writing Art)

Mel Bochner The MIT Press The MIT Press
Artist Mel Bochner became a writer, he says, almost by accident. In 1965, as a young artist in New York, he was out of a job; Arts Magazine paid him $2.50 for every review he turned in, whether they published it or not; a month of review-writing...
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The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography 1960-1982

Giovanni Anselmo, Stefan Gronnert, Pamela Lee, Geoffrey Batchen, Richard Flood, Peter Fischli, David Weiss, Mel Bochner, Sarah Charlesworth, Jan Dibbets, Valie Export, Vito Acconci, Bas Jan Ader, John Baldessari, Joseph Beuys, Christian Boltanski, Marcel Broodthaers, Dan Graham, Barbara Kruger, Sol Lewitt, Douglas Fogle, Kathy Halbreich Walker Art Center Walker Art Center
Photography has become an increasingly pervasive medium of choice in contemporary art practice and is even employed at times by artists who do not necessarily consider themselves to be photographers. How did this come to be? The Last Picture Show ...
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HuO: Hans-Ulrich Obrist: Interviews

Nobuyoshi Araki, Mel Bochner, Robert Breer, Matthew Barney, Louise Bourgeois, Daniel Buren, Jimmie Durham, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Mario Merz, Chen Zhen Charta/Fondazione Pitti Immagine Discovery Charta/Fondazione Pitti Immagine Discovery
It is not an exaggeration to write that Hans-Ulrich Obrist is everywhere, has curated everything and has interviewed everyone. If "peripatetic" is the word most overused to describe him, it is not inappropriate. The Swiss-born, everywhere-based...
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Inside the Studio: Talks With New York Artists

Mel Bochner, Janine Antoni, Leon Golub, Vik Muniz, Fred Wilson, Andrea Zittel Independent Curators International, New York Independent Curators International, New York
Since 1981, Independent Curators International (ICI) has run a series in which prominent New York artists talk about their work to an audience gathered at the artist's studio. The New York Studio Events program has visited some 200 distinguished...
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Mel Bochner: Language 1966-2006 (Art Institute of Chicago)

Johanna Burton Art Institute of Chicago Art Institute of Chicago
A leading practitioner of conceptual art, Mel Bochner (b. 1940) was one of the first artists in the 1960s to introduce language into the visual field. Despite their significance, these contributions remain unexplored in art historical scholarship....
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Down the Garden Path: The Artist's Garden After Modernism

Julian Agyeman, Brigitte Franzen, Jamaica Kincaid, Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn, Tom Finkelpearl, Ghada Amer, Mel Bochner, Mark Dion Queens Museum of Art Queens Museum of Art
An international array of artists including Isamu Noguchi, Jenny Holzer and Vito Acconci have been using the garden as a vehicle for commentary on social and political issues, in both public and private realms. The lush Down the Garden Path offers a...
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Reconsidering Barnett Newman

Philadelphia Museum Distribution Philadelphia Museum Distribution
In April 2002 the Philadelphia Museum of Art held a symposium in conjunction with a major retrospective of the work of Barnett Newman (1905–1970). This volume publishes the proceedings of the event. With contributions from notable specialists in...
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Ed Ruscha: Catalogue Raisonne of Paintings Volume 4: 1988-1992

Briony Fer, Mel Bochner, Ed Ruscha Steidl & Partners Steidl & Partners
Not every artist is suited to catalogue raisonne treatment, but the oeuvre of Ed Ruscha, comprised as it is of series, repetitions and documentations, looks great under such clerical scrutiny. Projected as a seven-volume edition under the guidance...
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Mel Bochner Photographs, 1966-1969

Scott Rothkopf Harvard University Art Museums Harvard University Art Museums
Mel Bochner (b. 1940) is considered a pioneer of the Post-Minimal and Conceptual art movements. Perhaps best known for his paintings, sculptures, and drawings, Bochner became deeply involved with photography in the mid- to late 1960s, although most...
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Mel Bochner Drawings, 1966-1973

Barry Schwabsky, Mel Bochner Lawrence Markey, Inc. Lawrence Markey, Inc.
Published on the occasion of the exhibition: Mel Bochner Drawings 1966-1973 at Lawrence Markey Gallery, New York, 80 pp., texts by Barry Schwabsky & Mel Bochner, B&W reproductions, soft bound, Lawrence Markey, Inc., New York, 1998.
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