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Description: Mel Bochner Drawings: A Retrospective
Mel Bochner Drawings: A Retrospective
Selected Bibliography
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Selected Bibliography
Solo Exhibition Catalogues
Bochner, Mel. Blue Powder Pigment Wall Pieces, 1968–1969: Drawings and Installations. Beverly Hills, CA: Grant Selwyn Fine Art, 2001.
Borchardt-Hume, Achim, and Doro Globus, eds. Mel Bochner: If the Colour Changes. London: Whitechapel Art Gallery, 2012.
Burton, Johanna, ed. Mel Bochner: Language, 1966–2006. With contributions by Mel Bochner, James Meyer, and James Rondeau. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2007.
Cherix, Christophe, Laurent Jenny, and James Meyer. Mel Bochner: Working Drawings and Other Visible Things on Paper Not Necessarily Meant to Be Viewed as Art. Cologne, Germany: König, 1997.
Christov-Bakargiev, Caroline. Mel Bochner: Via Tasso. Rome: Museo Storico della Liberazione di Roma, Edizione Carte Segrete, 1993.
Field, Richard S., ed. Mel Bochner: Thought Made Visible 1966–1973. New Haven, CT: Yale University Art Gallery, 1995.
Fine, Ruth. Mel Bochner: Drawings from Four Decades. New York: Fifth Floor Foundation, 2006.
Foreman, Kamilah, Elizabeth Franzen, and Sophia Larigakis, eds. Mel Bochner: Measurements (1968–1971). With essay by Alexis Lowry. New York: Dia Art Foundation, 2020.
Kleeblatt, Norman L., ed. Mel Bochner: Strong Language. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2014.
Mel Bochner: Primer. London: Simon Lee Gallery, 2014.
Richardson, Brenda. Mel Bochner: Number and Shape. Baltimore: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1976.
Rothkopf, Scott, ed. Mel Bochner Photographs, 1966–1969. With essay by Elisabeth Sussman. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Art Museums, 2002.
Schwabsky, Barry, and Mel Bochner. Mel Bochner: Drawings, 1966–1973. New York: Lawrence Markey Gallery, 1998.
Sigler, Jeremy. Mel Bochner: Voices. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2017.
Weiss, Jeffrey S. Mel Bochner: Drawings, 1966–1968. New York: Craig F. Starr Gallery, 2015.
———. Mel Bochner: Photographs and Not Photographs. San Francisco: Fraenkel Gallery, 2010.
Group Exhibition Catalogues
Baum, Kelly, Lucy Bradnock, and Tina Rivers Ryan, eds. Delirious: Art at the Limits of Reason, 1950–1980. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2017.
Bochner, Mel, and Alighiero Boetti. Verba Volant Scripta Manent: Boetti Bochner. New York: TOTAH, 2016.
Documenta (5). Kassel, Germany: C. Bertelsmann Verlag, 1972.
Dunham, Carroll, and Naomi Spector Ragland Watkins, eds. Mel Bochner, Barry Le Va, Dorothea Rockburne, Richard Tuttle. Cincinnati: Contemporary Arts Center, 1975.
Gintz, Claude, Juliette Laffon, and Angeline Scherf, eds. L’Art conceptuel, une perspective. Paris: Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1989.
Halbreich, Kathy. Mel Bochner/Richard Serra. Cambridge, MA: Hayden Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1980.
Hussey, Miciah, Asaac Alpert, and Sarah Willis, eds. Drawing 2020: Gladstone Gallery. With essay by Molly Nesbit. Cologne, Germany: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, 2020.
Kearney, Fiona, and Chris Clarke, eds. Boolean Expressions: Contemporary Art and Mathematical Data. Cork, Ireland: Lewis Glucksman Gallery, 2015.
Magazzino Italian Art Foundation. Bochner Boetti Fontana. Cold Spring, NY: Magazzino Italian Art Foundation, 2020.
McShine, Kynaston L., ed. Information. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1970.
Pascale, Mark, ed. Contemporary Drawings from the Collection of Irving Stenn Jr. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago; New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2011.
Pluot, Sébastien, and Fabien Vallos, eds. Art by Telephone: Recalled. Montpellier, France: La Panacée; Paris: Cneai=; Le Mans, France: École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts Tours Angers Le Mans; Bordeaux, France: École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, 2014.
Rales, Emily Wei, and Jeffrey Weiss. If We Could Imagine. Potomac, MD: Glenstone Foundation, 2009.
Rose, Bernice. Drawing Now. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1976.
Szeemann, Harald. Live in Your Head: When Attitudes Become Form; Works, Concepts, Processes, Situations, Information. Bern: Kunsthalle Bern, 1969.
WÄNDE I WALLS. Stuttgart, Germany: Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, 2021.
Selected Anthologies
Bois, Yve-Alain. “‘What If . . . .” In Mel Bochner. Solar System and Rest Rooms: Writings and Interviews, 1965–2007. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2008.
Diack, Heather. Documents of Doubt: The Photographic Conditions of Conceptual Art. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2020.
Dryansky, Larisa. Cartophotographies: De l’art conceptuel au Land Art. Paris: Institut National d’Histoire de Art, 2017.
Goldstein, Ann, and Diedrich Diederichsen. A Minimal Future? Art As Object, 1958–1968. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2004.
Johnson, Ellen H. Modern Art and the Object: A Century of Changing Attitudes. New York: Harper and Row, 1976.
Lippard, Lucy R. Six Years: The Dematerialization of Art; A Cross-Reference Book of Information on Some Esthetic Boundaries. New York: Praeger Books, 1973.
Lovatt, Anna. Drawing Degree Zero: The Line from Minimal to Conceptual Art. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2019.
Meyer, James. Minimalism: Art and Polemics in the Sixties. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2001.
Netta, Irene, Helmut Friedel, and Ulrich Wilmes. “36 Photographs and 12 Diagrams.” In Das Gedächtnis öffnet seine Tore: Die Kunst der Gegenwart im Lenbachhaus, edited by Helmut Friedel and Ulrich Wilmes. Ostfildern-Ruit, Germany: Hatje Cantz, 1999.
Rorimer, Anne. New Art in the 60s and 70s, Redefining Reality. London: Thames and Hudson, 2001.
Zelavansky, Lynn, ed. Beyond Geometry: Experiments in Form, 1940s–70s. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2004.
Selected Articles and Reviews
Ashton, Dore. “New York Commentary.” Studio International 179, no. 919 (February 1970): 118–19.
Boice, Bruce. “Mel Bochner’s Drawings.” Artforum 11, no. 4 (April 1972): 75–76.
Buchloh, Benjamin H. D. “Conceptual Art 1962–1969: From the Aesthetic of Administration to the Critique of Institutions.” October 55 (Winter 1990): 105–43.
Chandler, John. “The Last Word in Graphic Art.” Art International 12 (November 1968): 25–28.
Danto, Arthur C. Introduction to On Certainty/Über Gewissheit, by Ludwig Wittgenstein. San Francisco: Arion Press, 1991.
de Bruyn, Eric. “Alfaville, or the Utopics of Mel Bochner.” Grey Room, 10 (Winter 2003): 76–111.
Godfrey, Mark. “Mel Bochner’s Via Tasso project, 1993.” In Abstraction and the Holocaust, 169–97. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007.
Goldin, Amy. “The Body Language of Pictures.” Artforum 16, no. 7 (March 1978): 54–59.
Graham, Dan. “Models and Monuments: The Plague of Architecture.” Arts Magazine 41 (March 1967), 32–35.
———. “New York: Of Monuments and Dreams.” Art and Artists 1 (March 1967): 62–63.
Hess, Thomas B. “Polished Constructivism.” New York, March 1, 1976, 61–62.
Kalina, Richard. “Stop, Look And Listen! Mel Bochner Strong Language.” Brooklyn Rail, June 2014, brooklynrail.org/2014/06/artseen/stop-look-and-listen.
King, Jennifer. “Mel Bochner: Drawing from Four Decades at Wynn Kramarsky.” Art on Paper 10, no. 6 (July–August 2006): 68.
Levin, Kim. “Mel Bochner’s ‘Voices.’” Art Agenda, June 7, 2017, art-agenda.com/features/240255/mel-bochner-s-voices.
LeWitt, Sol. “Paragraphs on Conceptual Art.” Artforum 5, no. 10 (Summer 1967): 79–83.
Loos, Ted. “‘Blah, Blah, Blah.’ Mel Bochner Tells Us about a Very Cool Museum Show He Curated.” Introspective Magazine, November 15, 2020, 1stdibs.com/introspective-magazine/bochner-boetti-fontana/.
Meyer, James. “Bochner’s Measurement Series.” In Kontext Kunst, edited by Peter Weibel, 129–33. Cologne, Germany: DuMont, 1994.
———. “Mel Bochner at SteinGladstone.” Flash Art, November–December 1991, 132.
Pincus-Witten, Robert. “Mel Bochner: The Constant as Variable.” Artforum 11, no. 4 (December 1972): 28–34.
Post, Ari. “‘Amazing!’ Mel Bochner in the Tower.” Georgetowner, May 3, 2012, georgetowner.com/articles/2012/05/03/amazing-mel-bochner-tower/.
Schwabsky, Barry. “Mel Bochner, Gravats. Représentation des premières oeuvres.” Exposé: Revue d’esthétique et d’art contemporain, 1995, 134–43.
Sigler, Jeremy. “Mel Bochner’s Torah.” Tablet, December 14, 2017, tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/mel-bochners-torah.
Smith, Roberta. “A Calculus With Chalk, Stones and Walnuts.” New York Times, May 23, 2013, 28.
———. “Art in Review: Mel Bochner.” New York Times, June 16, 2006, 33.
Walsh, Meeka, and Robert Enright. “The Bochnerian Not: An Interview with Mel Bochner.” Border Crossings 38, no. 1 (March 2019): 24–39.
Weiss, Jeffrey. “Language in the Vicinity of Art: Artists’ Writings, 1960–1975.” Artforum 42, no. 10 (Summer 2004): 212–17.
Westfall, Stephen. “Bochner Unbound.” Art in America 73, no. 7 (July 1985): 108–13.
Wilson, William S. “Museum Reviews Mel Bochner: Operational Mischief.” On Paper 2, no. 6 (July–August 1998): 44–45.
Selected Writings and Statements by the Artist
“3 Conditions.” Art and Project Bulletin, September 15, 1970.
“Alfaville, Godard’s Apocalypse.” Arts Magazine 42, no. 7 (May 1968), 14–17.
“Anyone Can Learn to Draw.” Press release for Drawings. Munich: Galerie Heiner Friedrich, 1969.
Bochner, Mel, and Laurent Sauerwein. 11 Excerpts (1967–1970). Paris: Édition Sonnabend, 1971.
“Excerpts from Speculation.” Artforum 8, no. 9 (May 1970): 70–73.
Mel Bochner. Milan: Editore Toselli, 1971.
Mel Bochner/Notes on Theory. Kingston: University of Rhode Island, 1971.
Mel Bochner: (toward) Axiom of Indifference, 1971–1973. New York: Sonnabend Gallery, 1974.
“Mental Exercise #1 (Counting).” Art Gallery Magazine 14 (April 1971): 32–33.
“Primary Structures: A Declaration of a New Attitude as Revealed by an Important Current Exhibition.” Arts Magazine 40, no. 8 (June 1966): 32–35.
Primer: The Complete Catalog of Twenty-One Demonstrations from a Theory of Sculpture: Counting. Milan: Flash Art Edizioni, 1973.
“Serial Art Systems: Solipsism.” Arts Magazine 41, no. 8 (Summer 1967): 39–43
“The Serial Attitude.” Artforum 6, no. 4 (December 1967): 28–33.
Smithson, Robert, and Mel Bochner. “The Domain of the Great Bear.” Art Voices, Fall 1966, 44–51.
Solar System and Rest Rooms: Writings and Interviews, 1965–2007. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2008.
Spéculations: Écrits, 1965–1973. Edited by Christope Cherix and Valérie Mavridorakis. Translated by Thierry Dubois. Geneva: Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, 2003.
“Three Statements for Data Magazine.” Data Magazine 2 (February 1972): 62–67.
“Theory of Boundaries.” Arts Magazine 44, no. 6 (April 1970): 44.
Interviews with the Artist
Coplans, John. “Mel Bochner on Malevich, an Interview.” Artforum 12, no. 10 (Summer 1974): 59–63.
“How Can You Defend Making Paintings Now? A Conversation between Mel Bochner and James Meyer.” In As Painting: Division and Displacement, exh. cat., edited by Philip Armstrong, 199–204. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press; Columbus: Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, 2001.
“Language Factory: Mel Bochner Talks to Mark Godfrey.” Frieze 87 (November–December 2004): 102–5.
Marano, Lizbeth. “Mel Bochner Interview.” Archives of American Art, May 1994, aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/ oral-history-interview-mel-bochner-11600.
“The Singer Notes: A Conversation between Sebastien Pluot and Mel Bochner.” Singer Notes, 1968. Paris: mfc-michèle didier, 2017.
Varian, Elayne. Interview in Solar System and Rest Rooms: Writings and Interviews, 1965–2007, by Mel Bochner, 56–60. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2008.
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