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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 709.2
EAN num: 9780262026314
ISBN number: 0262026317
Label: The MIT Press
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Page Count: 235
Printing Date: May 31, 2008
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Artist Mel Bochner became a writer, he says, almost by accident. In 1965, as a young artist in New York, he was out of a job; Arts Magazine paid him $2.50 for every review he turned in, whether they published it or not; a month of review-writing paid his rent—$28.00 a month. His reviews and articles provoked a range of unexpected reactions. 'At that time, artists who wrote were looked at suspiciously, as if writing somehow tainted their visual practice,' he writes. A painter friend attacked him publicly for 'joining the enemy.' Bochner soon began testing the boundary between writing-as-criticism and writing-as-visual-art. Solar System & Rest Rooms collects both Bochner's writings on art and his writings as art, offering more than fifty pieces—reviews, art criticism, theoretical texts, interviews, catalog statements, notecards, and his groundbreaking 'magazine interventions'—many reproduced in facsimile.
Bochner is a leading figure in conceptualism; his 1966 installation at the School of Visual Arts Gallery Working Drawings and Other Visible Things on Paper Not Necessarily Meant to Be Viewed as Art is considered to be the earliest exhibition of conceptual art. Solar System & Rest Rooms chronologically documents the work and ideas of this important artist over a span of forty years, as well as providing a unique perspective on the conceptual and post-minimal art scene in New York. This book offers a rare insight into what it means to be an artist whose visual practice is inseparable from the sustained practice of writing.
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Mel Bochner is an American conceptual artist living in New York City. After studying art at Carnegie Mellon University, where he received his BFA in 1962, Bochner studied philosophy at Northwestern University before moving to NYC in 1964. He then taught Art History at the School of Visual Arts in New York. His 1966 show, "Working Drawings And Other Visible Things On Paper Not Necessarily Meant To Be Viewed As Art," revolutionized the conceptual art movement.
He turned his attention to writing in 1965, by writing reviews for Arts Magazine. He earned pocket change for his reviews, enough to scrape together money for rent. Bochner, who considered language itself a form of art, pushed the boundaries with his critical reviews. Solar System & Rest Rooms is a chronological collection of more than fifty of Bochner's writings on art and as art, published over the course of forty years. (The curious title of Bochner's book is taken from a sign posted at the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History.) Part memoir, part art, and part portrait of the artist as a young man, Boechner's engaging writing offers insights into the New York conceptual art scene since the 1960s.
G. Merritt
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