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Mel Bochner: Working Drawings and Other Visible Things on Paper Not Necessarily Meant to Be Viewed as Art - Hardcover
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.
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- PublisherVerlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig
- ISBN 10 3883752649
- ISBN 13 9783883752648
- BindingHardcover
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Working Drawings and Other Visible Things on Paper Not Necessarily Meant to be Viewed as Art
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Koln: Walther Konig
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ISBN 10: 3883752649
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Book Description In 1966, Bochner curated an exhibition of working drawings collected from artist friends and colleagues. This landmark show of conceptual collaboration included work by Donald Judd, Robert Smithson, Eva Hesse, Sol LeWitt, Robert Mangold, Dan Graham, John Cage, and others. Also included were contributions from composers, mathematicians, choreographers, and engineers. The work was Xeroxed and then bound into four identical volumes that were then mounted on pedestals in the center of the gallery. This is a 1997 recreation of that event." A clean fine paperback exhibition catalog (in four identifcal volumes plus three essays by Cherix, Jenny & Meyer) in decorative wrappers (soft cover book) in fine paper slip case. Seller Inventory # 2021174
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Working Drawings and Other Visible Things On Paper Not Necessarily Meant To Be Viewed As Art (Signed)
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Cabinet des Estampes / Walter Konig, Geneva, Switzerland
(1997)
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Book Description Softcover. 4 black, wrapped volumes w/ of various paginations; Appx. 600+ pp. of bw illustrations. 34pp white wrapped introduction. black cloth slipcase. This edition is the signed and numberd 'Deluxe Edition.' This is copy 51 of 60 with the artist's signature, number and date to title page. Includes signed and number artist's print.This edition was printed from photocopies dating from the 1966 installation contained in the first binder of the Working Drawings. It is 1 of 450 slipcased sets of four identical volumes and an accompanying brochure. The brochure contains text by James Meyer, reprinted and translated here, which first appeared in the catalogue "Mel Bochner: Thought Made Visible 1966-1973", published by Yale University Art Gallery in 1995. Also includes essays by Christophe Cherix, Laurent Jenny, and James Meyer. All text in French and English. An unusual find. VG/Good+ (edge-wear to wraps; scuffs & scratches. rubbing to corners. slipcase highly sunned to edges; scuffs & scratches to cloth.). Seller Inventory # 24861
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