Figure 2 Mel Bochner

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TitlePortrait of Duchamp

Creator nameBochner, Mel

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator roleDraftsman

Creation date1968

Object typeDrawing

MaterialsInk on graph paper

LocationCollection of the artist

Accession numberUnknown

SubjectsConceptual art--United StatesWords in artArtists--Portraits

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Toward Contingency

Barry Schwabsky

Mel Bochner Drawings: A Retrospective

Works on paper? Or drawings? Mel Bochner’s work poses many questions, only some of which I can touch on here. But even this simple, almost trivial, classificatory dilemma exposes a diffculty about how and whether to rationalize an experience that is part of the essential content of the artist’s oeuvre. What, fundamentally, are we looking at? What are we talking about? Can the looking...

Author

Barry Schwabsky

PublisherArt Institute of Chicago

Related print edition pages: pp.29-39

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00315.2

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-22596&redirecttoanchor=80855

Chapter subject tags:Bochner, Mel, 1940-Conceptual art--United StatesDrawing--TechniqueArtists--PortraitsColor in art

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