"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 ..."
MelBochner(First Edition) Measurements (1968–1971) (DIA ART FOUNDAT) by Alexis Lowry, MelBochner, 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 ..."
"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 ..."
"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."
"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 ..."
"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 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."
MelBochner(Illustrated) Strong Language (Jewish Museum) by Norman L. Kleeblatt, MelBochner 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 ..."
"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 ..."
MelBochner Monoprints: Words, Words, Words... by MelBochner, 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, ..."
"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 (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 ..."
"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 ..."
"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 ..."
An American Lens Scenes from Alfred Stieglitz's New York Secession (The MIT Press) by Jay Bochner, MelBochner 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 ..."
"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 ..."