Mel Bochner: Working Drawings and Other Visible Things on Paper Not Necessarily Meant to Be Viewed as Art

This paperback set is comprised of 4 black paperbacks, all the same, and a stapled booklet, in a slip case. Originally conceived as an exhibition, shown at the Visual Arts Gallery, School of Visual Arts, New York, December 2 - December, 1966, Mel Bochner compiled notebook pages and working drawings by Bochner, Carl Andre, Anonymous, A. Babakhanian, Jo Baer, John Cage, M. Carsiodes, Tom Clancy, Dan Flavin, Jim Freed, Milton Glaser, Dan Graham, Eva Hesse, Alfred Jensen, Donald Judd, Michael Kirby, William Kolakoski, Robert Lepper, Sol LeWitt, Robert Mangold, Robert Moskowitz, Tom Russell, Robert Smithson, Kenneth Snelson, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Tippetts-Abbett-McCarthy-Stratton into a xeroxed volume which was then presented in four identical copes, each on their own pedestal. This publication, inspired by the original presentation, consists of four identical volumes, plus a new volume of critical texts on the work within a slipcase. Fifth volume contains texts by Christophe Cherix, Laurent Jenny, James Meyer in parallel French and English.