Mel Bochner: Language 1966-2006 (Art Institute of Chicago) - Hardcover

Burton, Johanna

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 030012144X ISBN 13: 9780300121445

Verlag: Yale University Press, 2007

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Book by Johanna Burton

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Reseña del editor:

A leading practitioner of conceptual art, Mel Bochner (b. 1940) was one of the first artists in the 1960s to reintroduce language into the visual field. Despite their significance, these contributions remain unexplored in art historical scholarship. This fascinating book provides for the first time an overview of Bochner's language-based works from the past forty years, including previously unpublished images and projects. Long preoccupied by language and its influence on vision and perception, Bochner has shifted recently from a more analytical use of language to an exploration of the way in which colour diverts a text from its duty to convey meaning. As a result, language becomes a tool in Bochner's interrogation into how an object, be it a painting, sculpture, mathematical equation, or a complete replacement of the 'object' with language itself, can function as a work of art.

Biografía del autor:

Johanna Burton is a Ph.D candidate in the department of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University. She is faculty at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, and the School of the Arts, Columbia University.

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• Verlag: Yale University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• ISBN 10: 030012144X
• ISBN 13: 9780300121445
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 144