Mel Bochner

born 1940

Mel Bochner, ‘Language is not transparent’ 1969
Language is not transparent 1969
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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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Conceptual art

Artworks

Mel Bochner, ‘Language is not transparent’ 1969

Mel Bochner Language is not transparent

1969
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Mel Bochner Four Times Three

1973
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Mel Bochner Cardinal Vs. Ordinal 5

1972, 1991
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Mel Bochner 36” Latitudinal Projection

1969
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Features

John Tenniel notes on his illustration of Alice with Tweedledum and Tweedledee
Tate Etc

When I use a word... it means just what I choose it to mean: Alice in Wonderland II

Lewis Carroll demonstrated how inventive one could be with words and their meanings. Since the 1960s artists such as Mel Bochner ...

Sculpture of a rudimentary figure made from aluminium and acrylic paint, which has been made to look like torn fragments of white paper lying on the floor.
Tate Paper

David Musgrave: Faulty Images

This paper takes as its starting point two drawings by David Musgrave in Tate’s collection, Plane with inverted figure ...

Sol LeWitt A Wall Divided Vertically into Fifteen Equal Parts, Each with a Different Line Direction and Colour, and All Combinations 1970
Tate Paper

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 ...

Front cover of Lucy Lippard, Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972
Tate Paper

Curating by Numbers: Landmark Exhibitions Issue

This paper looks back at the author’s curatorial practice, with a focus on her ‘number shows’ and their randomly ...

Hans Haacke Norbert: ‘All Systems Go’ 1970–1
Tate Paper

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 ...

Vito Acconici Following Piece 1969
Tate Etc

Bound to fail: Open Systems I

The late 1960s saw a radical rethinking of the art object, with the emphasis shifting away from the static artwork ...

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