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Books by Mel Bochner






Solar System & Rest Rooms(First Edition)
Writings and Interviews, 1965--2007 (Writing Art)
by Mel Bochner, Yve-Alain Bois, Roger Conover
Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 2008 by The Mit Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-262-02631-4, ISBN: 0-262-02631-7

"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 paid his rent--$28.00 a month. His reviews and articles provoked a range of unexpected reactions. "At that time, artists who wrote ..."






Mel Bochner(First Edition)
Measurements (1968–1971) (DIA ART FOUNDAT)
by Alexis Lowry, Mel Bochner, Elayne Varian
Hardcover, 128 Pages, Published 2020 by Dia Art Foundation
ISBN-13: 978-0-944521-90-8, ISBN: 0-944521-90-8

"Here, preparatory drawings, poetic artist's notes and archival photographs of the first Measurement Rooms reveal Bochner's thinking and process beyond this pivotal series while a contemporaneous interview with Elayne Varian and an essay by ..."






Mel Bochner(Illustrated)
If the Colour Changes
by Achim Borchardt-Hume, Doro Globus, Mel Bochner, Ulrich Wilmes, Joao Fernandes
Paperback, 216 Pages, Published 2013 by Ram Publications
ISBN-13: 978-1-905464-66-1, ISBN: 1-905464-66-5

"Published in conjunction with a major retrospective, this monograph takes colour as its guiding thread to highlight Mel Bochner’s rich and thought-provoking approach to photography, installation and painting.One of the founding figures of Conceptual art, and one of its most astute critics, Mel Bochner combines colour and language in his work. This monograph focuses on the role of colour, the purity of thought and visual pleasure in Boch ..."






Mel Bochner Drawings, 1966-1973(1st Edition)
by Barry Schwabsky, Mel Bochner
Paperback, 80 Pages, Published 1998 by Lawrence Markey, Inc.
ISBN-13: 978-1-883597-01-6, ISBN: 1-883597-01-3

"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."






Amazing! Mel Bochner Prints
From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation
by Sienna Brown, Ruth Fine, Barry Schwabsky, Jan Howard, Mel Bochner, Carolyn Vaughan, Jordan Schnitzer
Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2018 by Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation
ISBN-13: 978-1-73232-120-5, ISBN: 1-73232-120-5

"For more than 50 years, American conceptualist Mel Bochner (born 1940) has been shaping dialogs between art and language through exhibition concepts, paintings and sculptures that embrace systems and structures to reveal their cracks and limitations, undermining the means we use to comprehend the world. Bochner created his first prints in 1973 at the invitation of publisher Robert Feldman of Parasol Press (who introduced a generation of ..."






The Last Picture Show(1st Edition)
Artists Using Photography 1960-1982
by Peter Fischli, David Weiss, Brood Giovanni Anselmo, Mel Bochner, Sarah Charlesworth, Jan Dibbets, Bas Jan Ader, John Baldessari, Valie Export, Vito Acconci, Joseph Beuys, Pamela Lee, Geoffrey Batchen, Stefan Gronnert, Richard Flood, Christian Boltanski, Marcel Broodthaers, Dan Graham, Barbara Kruger, Bruce Nauman, Dennis Oppenheim, Sol Lewitt, Douglas Fogle, Hilla Becher, Bernd Becher, Bruce Conner, Sigmar Polke, Gerhard Richter, Walker Art Center
Hardcover, 304 Pages, Published 2003 by Walker Art Center
ISBN-13: 978-0-935640-76-2, ISBN: 0-935640-76-2

"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 will address the emergence of this phenomenon of artists using photography by tracing the development of conceptual trends in postwar photographic practice from its first glimmerings in the 60s ..."






The serial attitude(1st Edition)
by Mel Bochner, Mark Gisbourne, John Coplans
Hardcover, Published 2016 by Eykyn Maclean
ISBN-13: 978-0-9830834-7-4, ISBN: 0-9830834-7-9

"Published to coincide with the exhibition of the same name at Eykyn Maclean, New York, 3 November - 16 December 2016"






Robert Mangold
Early Works 1963-66
by Robert Mangold, Mel Bochner, Lucy Lippard, Rachel Churner, Elizabeth Cunning, Laura Matt
Hardcover, 105 Pages, Published 2004 by Ny: Peter Freeman
ISBN-13: 978-0-9746604-0-0, ISBN: 0-9746604-0-X

"The catalogue raisonne "Robert Mangold: Early Works 1963-66" for the first time entirely documents and links two of Mangold's earliest series, and explores the role this early work played in shaping Mangold's future art-making practice."






Mel Bochner(Illustrated)
Strong Language (Jewish Museum)
by Norman L. Kleeblatt, Mel Bochner
Hardcover, 144 Pages, Published 2014 by Jewish Museum
ISBN-13: 978-0-300-19734-1, ISBN: 0-300-19734-9

"An engaging exploration of the use of language in a complex and colorful series of paintings Mel Bochner (b. 1940) is celebrated as a key Conceptual artist of the 1960s. Less well-known are his paintings made after that period: complex works based on an exploration of language, often crowded with typography in lush, contrasting hues that both embrace and challenge the painterly tradition. Mel Bochner: Strong Language focuses on this i ..."






Reconsidering Barnett Newman(Updated)
by Melissa Ho, Contributor-Mel Bochner, Contributor-Mark Godfrey, Contributor-Ben Heller, Contributor-Robert Murray, Contributor-Suzanne Penn, Contributor-Pierre Schneider, Contributor-Gabriele Schor, Contributor-Richard Shiff, Contributor-Nan Rosenthal, Contributor-Allan Stone, Yve-Alain Bois, B. H. Friedman, Carol Mancusi-Ungaro, Sarah K. Rich, Contributor-Sarah, Philadelphia Museum Distribution, Barnett Newman,
Paperback, 200 Pages, Published 2005 by Philadelphia Museum Distribution
ISBN-13: 978-0-300-10933-7, ISBN: 0-300-10933-4

"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 the field, including art historians, museum curators, critics, conservators, and fellow artists, the book pays homage to Newman and sheds new light on his work as a theoretician and innovator. T ..."






Mel Bochner
Monoprints: Words, Words, Words...
by Mel Bochner, Barry Schwabsky
Hardcover, 72 Pages, Published 2013 by Two Palms, Ny
ISBN-13: 978-0-615-66628-0, ISBN: 0-615-66628-0

"New York City-based artist Mel Bochner (born 1940) is one of the founders of Conceptual and installation art in America. Monoprints is, surprisingly, the first book devoted solely to this important artist’s experimental printed works, even though Bochner has been producing text-based works for over 40 years. In the last 18 years, Bochner has produced a remarkable body of printed works in collaboration with Two Palms studio in New York, ..."






Mel Bochner(1st Edition)
Language 1966-2006 (Art Institute of Chicago)
by Johanna Burton, Contributor-James Rondeau, Contributor-James Meyer, Mel. Bochner, James Sampson Meyer
Hardcover, 148 Pages, Published 2007 by Art Institute Of Chicago
ISBN-13: 978-0-300-12144-5, ISBN: 0-300-12144-X

"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. This fascinating book provides the first overview of Bochner’s language-based works from the past forty years, including previously unpublished images and projects.Long preoccupied by language ..."






Mel Bochner Photographs, 1966-1969(1st Edition)
by Mr. Scott Rothkopf, Mel Bochner, Scoff Rothkopf, Elisabeth Sussman, Elizabeth Sussman
Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2002 by Harvard Art Museums
ISBN-13: 978-0-300-09348-3, ISBN: 0-300-09348-9

"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 of these works have only recently been exhibited. This significant book provides the first critical look at a virtually unknown body of Bochner's extremely varied photographs dating from 1966 ..."






Mel Bochner(1st Edition)
Photographs and Not Photographs
by Mel Bochner, Jeffrey Weiss Cmt, Jeffrey Fraenkel, Jeffrey S. Weiss
Hardcover, 80 Pages, Published 2010 by Fraenkel Gallery
ISBN-13: 978-1-881337-28-7, ISBN: 1-881337-28-6

"A hugely influential presence in postwar American art, Mel Bochner (born 1940) coined some of Postminimalist and Conceptual art's most characteristic strategies-the gallery as subject, language as material, the photo documentation of works as the work itself, the appropriation of ephemeral materials by other artists-and directed those strategies towards a radical excavation of all that had been rendered peripheral to art's proper conten ..."






Verba Volant Scripta Manent
by Liane Jones, David Totah, Mel Bochner
Hardcover, Published 2016 by Totah
ISBN-13: 978-0-692-62046-5, ISBN: 0-692-62046-X






Conversations from the Print Studio
A Master Printer in Collaboration with Ten Artists (Yale University Art Gallery)
by Elisabeth Hodermarsky, Craig Zammiello, Mel Bochner
Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2012 by Yale University Art Gallery
ISBN-13: 978-0-300-17989-7, ISBN: 0-300-17989-8

"Over his thirty years as a master printer, Craig Zammiello has established himself as a foremost specialist of intaglio printmaking in the United States. Through lively discussions between Zammiello, Elisabeth Hodermarsky, and ten contemporary artists--Mel Bochner, Carroll Dunham, Ellen Gallagher, Jane Hammond, Suzanne McClelland, Chris Ofili, Elizabeth Peyton, Matthew Ritchie, Kiki Smith, and Terry Winters--Conversations from the Print ..."






October
Art / Theory / Criticism / Politics. No. 130 (Fall 2009). Questionnaire on "The Contemporary": 32 Responses.
by David Joselit, Mel Bochner, James Meyer, Carrie Lambert-Beatty, Megan Sullivan, Rosalind Krauss, Annette Michelson, Editors. Et Al
Paperback, Published 2009 by Mit Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-262-75280-0, ISBN: 0-262-75280-8






The Writings of Donald Judd(1st Edition)
by Donald Judd, Antliff Allan, Mel Bochner, Richard Ford, Thomas Kellein, David Rabinowitch, David Raskin, David . Tompkins, Chinati Foundation
Paperback, 215 Pages, Published 2009 by Chinati Foundation
ISBN-13: 978-1-61584-539-2, ISBN: 1-61584-539-9

"The Writings of Donald Judd"






An American Lens
Scenes from Alfred Stieglitz's New York Secession (The MIT Press)
by Jay Bochner, Mel Bochner
Paperback, 390 Pages, Published 2008 by The Mit Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-262-52488-9, ISBN: 0-262-52488-0

"In An American Lens, Jay Bochner looks at a series of milestones in the development of the American avant-garde that capture a pivotal period in artistic consciousness. He focuses on the multiple roles of Alfred Stieglitz -- as influential gallery owner, photographer, and impresario of the emerging art scene -- at a series of significant moments in his career. These clo ..."






Abstraction
(Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art)
by David Batchelor, Charles Baudelaire, Charles Blanc, John Ruskin, Alphonse Allais, Herman Melville, Arthur Rimbaud, Gustave Moreau, Max Nordau, Paul Gauguin, Paul Signac, Maurice Denis, Henri Matisse, Roger Fry, Umberto Boccioni, Giacomo Balla, Gino Severini, Wassily Kandinsky, Oswald Spengler, Luigi Russolo, Walter Benjamin, Clive Bell, Albert Gleizes, Jean Metzinger, Robert Delaunay, Le Corbusier, Kazimir, Amédée Ozenfant, Carlo Carrà, Piet Mondrian, Vincent Van Gogh, Joris Karl Huysmans, Rainer Maria Rilke, Naum Gabo, Anton Pevsner, Alexander Rodchenko, Paul Klee, Theo Van Doesburg, Osip Brik, Carl Jung, Adrian Stokes, Mark Rothko, Fernand Léger, Sergei Eisenstein, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Bernard Berenson, Carlos Cruz-Diez, Victor Vasarely, Aldous Huxley, Henri Michaux, Yves Klein, Piero Manzoni, Roland Barthes, Donald Judd, Barnett Newman, Hélio Oiticica, Josef Albers, Helen Frankenthaler, Sonia Delaunay, Jules Olitski, Robert Morris, Ad Reinhardt, Daniel Buren, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Johannes Itten, Claude Levi-Strauss, Robert Smithson, Stan Brakhage, Italo Calvino, Jean Baudrillard, Thomas Pynchon, Johnny Cash, William H. Gass, Faber Birren, Theodor W. Adorno, Julia Kristeva, Jacques Derrida, Brice Marden, Anne Truitt, Gerhard Richter, Kenneth Noland, Peter Halley, Manlio Brusatin, Gilles Deleuze, Thierry De Duve, Umberto Eco, C. L. Hardin, Jacqueline Lichtenstein, Stephen Melville, Mike Kelley, Paul Auster, Bridget Riley, Jessica Stockholder, Milan Kundera, Derek Jarman, Quentin Tarantino, Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos, Yoko Ono, Victoria Finlay, Magnetic Fields, Rem Koolhaas, Ellsworth Kelly, Rachel Whiteread, Linda Besemer, Melanie Smith, Beatriz Milhazes, David Reed, Susan Hiller, James Welling, Polly Apfelbaum, Yinka Shonibare, Jimmie Durham, Pedro Cabrita Reis, Mel Bochner, Tacita Dean, Iwona Blazwick
Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2008 by The Mit Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-262-52481-0, ISBN: 0-262-52481-3

"Whether it is scooped up off the palette, deployed as propaganda, or opens the doors of perception, color is central to art not only as an element but as an idea. This unique anthology reflects on the aesthetic, cultural, and philosophical meaning of color through the writings of artists and critics, placed within the broader context of anthropology, film, philosophy, liter ..."



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