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Kevin Salatino (Editor)
Description: Mel Bochner Drawings: A Retrospective
Mel Bochner Drawings: A Retrospective
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Titles of works by an artist other than Bochner are found under the artist’s name.
abstract works, 37
“Alfaville, Godard’s Apocalypse” (Bochner), 18, 19, 26–27n25
Andress, Ursula, 17
Antecedent (Bochner), 122
anti-Semitism, 25, 160, 161
“Anyone Can Learn to Draw” (essay; Bochner), 179–80
Arte Povera, 23
Astaire, Fred, 17
L’Avventura (The Adventure) (film), 34
Aycock, Alice, Maze, 27n30
Babble (Bochner), 40, 158
Baer, Jo, 17
Baltimore Museum of Art, 36
Barthes, Roland, 18
Bauhaus, 14
Beckett, Samuel: Molloy, 27n36
The Unnamable, 35
Blah, Blah, Blah (2008, oil on paper, black and white; Bochner), 164
Blah, Blah, Blah (2008, oil on paper, color; Bochner), 152, 153
Blah, Blah, Blah (2008, rubber stamp on paper; Bochner), 38, 151
Blah, Blah, Blah (2019–20, oil on paper; Bochner), 165
Blah, Blah, Blah pieces (Bochner), 37–38, 151–53, 164–65
Bochner, Mel: abstract works of, 37
art education of, 7, 13–14, 26n4
Art Institute of Chicago and, 7
canvas, works on, 36–37
checklist of works, 189–91
color and shape, use of, 35–36, 37
conceptual works of, 37, 38
contingency and, 23, 29, 34, 37–38
digital age and, 38
essays by, 177–87
mathematics/counting and, 15–17, 34–35, 37
order in works of, 36–37
photo of, 188
portraits, as critiques of psychology of minimalism, 32–34
recursivity and, 37–38
solipsism in work of, 32, 33, 38, 185
subjectivity and, 33–34, 35, 37
wall drawings of, 35–36, 185–87
works on paper versus drawings, 29–32
writing, as drawings, 30–31, 37. See also exhibitions; play in Bochner’s works; specific works by title
Bochner Boetti Fontana (exhibition, 2020–21), 27n37
Boetti, Alighieri: Bochner Boetti Fontana (exhibition, 2020–21), 27n37
Dama, 23
Borges, Jorge Luis, “Death and the Compass,” from Labyrinths, 22, 27n34
building blocks, 13–15
Buren, Daniel, 185
Cage, John, 34
Caillois, Roger, Man, Play and Games, 13, 24
Cantor’s Paradox (Double) (Bochner), 45
canvas, works on, 25, 36–37, 129
Castagno, Andrea del, 186
Cause and Effect (Bochner), 59
Child’s Play 1 (Bochner), 12, 13–15, 49
Christo, 33
Circle with 2 Measurements (By Formula) (Bochner), 35, 89
color and shape, Bochner’s use of, 35–36, 37
Color Field painting, 35
conceptual works, 37, 38
Connery, Sean, 17
Contempt (film), 34
contingency, 23, 29, 34, 37–38
Continuous/Dis/Continuous (Bochner), 24, 34, 104–5
Counting (Rocks) (Bochner), 91
Counting Alternatives: Second Reading (Rotations) (Bochner), 34, 107–11
Counting: 4 Rotations (Bochner), 17, 96
Counting: 4 Rotations (Continuous #2) (Bochner), 17, 146–47
Counting: Intransitive (Red and Black) (Bochner), 138–39
Counting: Transitive (Bochner), 115
counting/mathematics, 15–17, 34–35, 37
cow wallpaper, Andy Warhol exhibition at Leo Castelli gallery (1966), 186–87
de Bruyn, Eric, 26–27n25
de Gaulle, Charles, 186
Derrida, Jacques, 25
“Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences,” 17, 18
diagrammatic drawings, 179–80
digital age, Bochner’s work in, 38
Do I Have to Draw You a Picture? (Bochner), 188
Don’t Hold Your Breath (Bochner), 162
drawings: “Anyone Can Learn to Draw” (essay; Bochner), 179–80
diagrammatic drawings, 179–80
“Drawing” (essay; Bochner), 183
finished drawings, 179
graph paper, use of, 180
sinopie (preparatory drawings for frescoes), 186
wall drawings, 35–36, 185–87
“Why Would Anyone Want to Draw in the Wall?” (essay; Bochner), 185–87
working drawings, 177, 179
works on paper versus, 29–32
writing as, 30–31, 37. See also specific Bochner drawings by title
Drawings (exhibition, 1969), 179–80
Duchamp, Marcel, 31, 32
Dürer, Albrecht, Melancholia I, 16
Dwan, Virginia, 14, 17
8½" × 11" (Bochner), 79
8" Measurement (Bochner), 80
Exasperate (Bochner), 25, 163
exhibitions: Bochner Boetti Fontana (Magazzino Italian Art, 2020–21), 27n37
Drawings (Galerie Heiner Friedrich, 1969), 179–80
The Great Age of Fresco: Giotto to Pontormo (Metropolitan Museum, 1968), 186, 187
Mel Bochner Drawings: A Retrospective (AIC, 2022), 7, 9, 29
Scale Models and Drawings (Dwan Gallery, 1967), 14, 15
Using Walls (Jewish Museum, 1970), 185
Warhol exhibit at Leo Castelli gallery (1966), 186–87
Working Drawings and Other Visible Things on Paper Not Necessarily Meant to Be Viewed as Art (SVA, 1966), 29–30, 60–61, 177–78
Eye-Level Cross-Section (Estimated and Measured) (Bochner), 20–22, 103
Eye-Level: Estimated/Measured (Bochner), 102
finished drawings, concept of, 179
Five by Four (Bochner), 118
Flavin, Dan, “monument” for V. Tatlin and Bochner’s Portrait of Dan Flavin, 31, 33
Florence, flood in (1966), 186
Fontana, Lucio, Bochner Boetti Fontana (exhibition, 2020–21), 27n37
48" Standards (#1) (Bochner), 83
Foster, Walter T., 178
Four Sets: Rotations and Reversals (Bochner), 16–17, 62
Four Shapes (Bochner), 35–36, 124–25
Fourth Range (Bochner), 34, 35, 113
Fra Angelico, 186
frescoes, preparatory drawings for (sinopias), 186
games and play. See play in Bochner’s works
Gardner, Martin, 16
Giotto, 186
Glass, Philip, 33
Godard, Jean-Luc, 18
graffti art, 186, 187
Graham, Dan, 27n27
graph paper, use of, 180
The Great Age of Fresco: Giotto to Pontormo (exhibition, 1968), 186, 187
Ha Ha Ha (Bochner), 38, 167–69
Hamilton, Ann, 20
Hesse, Eva, 17–18, 30–33
Hesse Page, from Working Drawings (Bochner), 176
Portrait of Eva Hesse (Bochner), 17, 18, 28, 30, 31, 32, 54
Wrap: Portrait of Eva Hesse (Bochner), 149
Hui, Yuk, 34, 37
Recursivity and Contingency, 29
I Forget What I Forgot (Bochner), 171
“inflatables,” 186
installation art, 15
Jasper’s Dilemma (Bochner), 75
Jew (2008; Bochner), 25
Jew (2010; Bochner), 161
Jew (Study) (Bochner), 25, 160
Jewish Museum, 185
Jews, Judaism, and anti-Semitism, 25, 136, 137, 160, 161
Joachim, Harold, 7
Johns, Jasper, 75, 185
Jolley, L. B. W., Summation of Series, 15
Judd, Donald, 17, 29–30, 33, 176, 177, 178, 185
Judd Page, from Working Drawings (Bochner), 176
Untitled, 14–15, 16
Judson Dance Theater, 17
Krauss, Rosalind, 27n31, 27n36
labyrinths, 18–24, 27n30
Language Is Not Transparent (1969; Bochner), 8, 38, 100
Language Is Not Transparent (1970; Bochner), 35, 38, 101
Language Is Not Transparent (Babel) (2019; Bochner), 173
Lascaux caves, 185
Leo Castelli gallery, 186–87
Lévi-Strauss, Claude, 17
LeWitt, Sol, 14, 27n27, 27n36, 30–34, 185
LeWitt Page, from Working Drawings (Bochner), 176
Portrait of Sol LeWitt (Bochner), 30, 31, 32, 55
Longhi, Roberto, 36
Lorenzetti brothers, 186
Mallarmé, Stéphane, Le Livre, 18, 27n27
Masolino da Panicale, 186
mathematics/counting, 15–17, 34–35, 37
Matisse, Henri, 36, 183
McLuhan, Marshall, 177
Measurement: 1" to 12" (Bochner), 134
Measurement: 1" to 12" (Color) (Bochner), 2, 135
Measurement 12" (Gray) (Bochner), 144
Measurement: 12" × 12" × 12" (Bochner), 145
Measurement: 180 Degrees (Bochner), 35, 81
Measurement Standards (page 3) (Bochner), 82
Measurement Standards (pages 5, 9, 15, 17, 21, 25, 29, 33, 37, 41, 45, 49) (Bochner), 84–85
Measurement: Wall (Bochner), 86–87
Measurement pieces (Bochner), 23, 79–89, 134–35, 144–45
Le Mépris (Contempt) (film), 34
Metropolitan Museum, 186, 187
Mexican muralists, 185
Minimal Art—The Movie (Bochner), 17–18, 26n24, 33, 58
Minimalism, 13, 17, 32–34, 38, 178
Morris, Robert, 17
Philadelphia Labyrinth, 20
National Science Foundation, 16
Nauman, Bruce, 20
Nelson, Mike, 20
new math, 16
Newman, Barnett, 186
No Vantage Point: Eye-Level Crossection of Room (Bochner), 20, 33–34, 92–93
Notecards . . . (Bochner), 98–99, 174
nouveau roman, 27n27
(N+1) Center Sets (Bochner), 14, 26n2, 63
the object, in art, 7, 13, 14, 15, 26, 35, 177, 178, 180, 185
O’Doherty, Brian, 27n30
Oh Well (2010, charcoal on paper; Bochner), 157
Oh Well (2010, ink on paper; Bochner), 154
Orcagna, Andrea, 186
order in Bochner’s works, 36–37
Palance, Jack, 17, 33, 34
Paris, May 1968 student riots in, 186
Perspective Insert (Bochner), 133
photographs of artworks, 177
Piero della Francesca, 36, 186
Planar Arc (Bochner), 123
play in Bochner’s works, 13–26
building blocks, 13–15
labyrinths, 18–24, 27n30
mathematics, recreational, 15–17
structure, sign, and play, 17–18
vertiginous play, 24–25
playing cards, flipping and rotating, as mathematical game, 16–17, 17, 26n19
Pollock, Jackson, 186
Portrait of Dan Flavin (Bochner), 31, 33
Portrait of Duchamp (Bochner), 31, 32
Portrait of Eva Hesse (Bochner), 17, 18, 28, 30, 31, 32, 54
Portrait of Robert Smithson (Bochner), 30–31, 32, 56
Portrait of Sol LeWitt (Bochner), 30, 31, 32, 55
Pounce Drawing (Bochner), 69
Project: Floor Labyrinth (Bochner), 18–20, 51
Project: Forced Perspective (Bochner), 53
Project: Room-Block (Bochner), 18–20, 50
Project: Seven Tiers (Bochner), 52
Projected Plan for 42 Photographs Tri-Axial Rotation of a Cube (Bochner), 64
Proposal for Wall Piece: Grids (Bochner), 70
Proposal for Wall Piece: Smudge (Bochner), 71
Quotation Piece: “There Is a Labyrinth” (Bochner), 20, 21
Ramanujan, Srinivasa, 34
Random Numbers #1 (Bochner), 97
Rauschenberg, Robert, 185
Recreational Mathematics Magazine, 16
recursivity, 37–38
Remarks on Color (Bochner), 37, 141–43
Ricochet series (Bochner), 24
Robards, Jason, 33, 34
Rosenblum, Robert, 26n24
Rules of Inference (Bochner), 4, 22, 22–24, 117
Ryman, Robert, 185
Saussure, Ferdinand de, 26n23
Scale Models and Drawings (exhibition, 1967), 14, 15
Schaaf, William L., 16
School Mathematics Study Group, 16–17, 17, 26n19
School of Visual Arts (SVA) gallery, New York, 177–77
Schwabsky, Barry, 27n32
Scientific American, 16, 178
Scientific American (1), from Working Drawings (Bochner), 176
Self-Portrait (After Chardin) (Bochner), 148
Self/Portrait (Bochner), 27n33, 30–33, 57
Self/Portrait@80 (Bochner), 6
“Serial Art Systems: Solipsism” (article; Bochner), 17
“The Serial Attitude” (article; Bochner), 14–15, 16
shape and color, Bochner’s use of, 35–36, 37
Siena, as color influence, 36
Singer Notes (Bochner), 76–77
sinopia, 186
Skeleton (Vertical) (Bochner), 24, 36, 128
Smithson, Robert, 17, 30–33, 56
Smudge (Bochner), 184
solipsism, 32, 33, 38, 185
Split Infinity (Bochner), 24, 36, 130–31
Sputter (Bochner), 159
Stella, Frank, 185
Still, Clyfford, 186
student riots in Paris (May 1968), 186
Study for Photo Piece (One Point Perspective) (Bochner), 66
Study for Atoll (Bochner), 182
Study for Double Solid Based on Cantor’s Paradox (Bochner), 44
A Study for Theory of Boundaries; #1–4 (Bochner), 90
Study for To Count: Transitive (Bochner), 114
subjectivity, 33–34, 35, 37
Superimposed Grids (Blue) (Bochner), 72–73
Taylor, Elizabeth, 17
Ten to 10 (Zones) (Bochner), 119
Theory of Painting (Part One) (Bochner), 94
Theory of Painting (Part Two) (Bochner), 94
Theory of Painting (Part Three) (Bochner), 95
Theory of Painting (Part Four) (Bochner), 95
Theory of Sculpture series (Bochner), 22
36 Photographs and 12 Diagrams (Bochner), 14, 15, 177
A Thousand Clowns (film), 34
3 (Bochner), 43
Three, Five, Four (Bochner), 121
3-Way Fibonacci Progression (Bochner), 14, 47
Tracing (Surface Deformation): Recrumpled (Bochner), 67
Tuttle, Richard, 185
Two Planar Arcs (Bochner), 126–27
Uccello, Paolo, 186
Untitled (“Child’s Play!”: Study for 7-Part Progression) (Bochner), 13, 14, 48
Untitled (Study for Cantor’s Paradox) (Bochner), 181
Untitled (Study for Isomorphic Circles) (Bochner), 18, 65
Untitled (Study for 3-Way Fibonacci Progression) (Bochner), 46
Using Walls (exhibition, 1970), 185
Valéry, Paul, 24
vertiginous play, 24–25
Vertigo (Bochner), 24, 36, 129
Vitti, Monica, 17, 33, 34
wall drawings, 35–36, 185–87
Warhol, Andy, 18, 186–87
Weiner, Lawrence, 185
Whitehead, Alfred North, 34
“Why Would Anyone Want to Draw in the Wall?” (essay; Bochner), 185–87
Wilson, William S., 27n42, 34
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 18, 37
Zettel, 34–35
Wittgenstein Illustrations (Bochner), 106
Working Drawing for Oh Well (Bochner), 155
working drawings, concept of, 177, 179
Working Drawings and Other Visible Things on Paper Not Necessarily Meant to Be Viewed as Art: artwork (Bochner), 29–30, 60–61, 176
essay (Bochner), 177–78
exhibition, 1966, 29–30, 60–61, 177–80
works on paper versus drawings, 29–32
Wrap: Portrait of Eva Hesse (Bochner), 149
writing, as drawings, 30–31, 37
Xerox copies of artworks, 177–78
Yiskor (For the Jews of Rome) (1993, ink on paper; Bochner), 136
Yiskor (For the Jews of Rome) (1993/2020, burnt matchsticks on army blanket; Bochner), 137