Mel Bochner
born 1940
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Biography
Mel Bochner (born 1940) is an American conceptual artist. Bochner received his BFA in 1962 and honorary Doctor of Fine Arts in 2005 from the School of Art at Carnegie Mellon University. He lives in New York City.
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Further reading
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All Systems Go: Recovering Jack Burnham’s ‘Systems Aesthetics’
Jack Burnham’s systems aesthetics was one of the first, fully developed, critical theories of postformalist artistic practice. Yet Burnham ...
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Curating by Numbers
This paper looks back at the author’s curatorial practice, with a focus on her ‘number shows’ and their randomly ...
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When I use a word... it means just what I choose it to mean
Lewis Carroll demonstrated how inventive one could be with words and their meanings. Since the 1960s artists such as Mel Bochner ...
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Bound to fail
The late 1960s saw a radical rethinking of the art object, with the emphasis shifting away from the static artwork ...
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David Musgrave: Faulty Images
This paper takes as its starting point two drawings by David Musgrave in Tate’s collection, Plane with inverted figure ...
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Ideas in Transmission: LeWitt’s Wall Drawings and the Question of Medium
This article considers Sol LeWitt’s wall drawings as artworks poised on the cusp of the ‘post-medium condition’ of installation ...