Mel Bochner : strong language / Norman L. Kleeblatt ; with a text by Mel Bochner.
Mel Bochner (b. 1940) is celebrated as a key Conceptual artist of the 1960s. Less well-known are his paintings made after that period: complex works based on an exploration of language, often crowded with typography in lush, contrasting hues that both embrace and challenge the painterly tradition. M...
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Language: | English |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[2014], ©2014.
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Physical Description: | ix, 133 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm |
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Strong language. |
Format: | Book |
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Mel Bochner (b. 1940) is celebrated as a key Conceptual artist of the 1960s. Less well-known are his paintings made after that period: complex works based on an exploration of language, often crowded with typography in lush, contrasting hues that both embrace and challenge the painterly tradition. Mel Bochner: Strong Language focuses on this important body of work, in which Bochner investigates the lines between text and image. Ranging from bold admonishments and witty emoticons to provocative floods of words, these works demonstrate conceptual seriousness, as well as delight in the playful potential of language. Norman L. Kleeblatt discusses the evolution of Bochner's art from his early word experiments through his return to painting, while Bochner offers a personal perspective. Both Kleeblatt and Bochner address the question of Jewishness in Bochner's work, particularly the ways in which the Jewish intellectual tradition embraces language as a visual expressive form. Exhibition: The Jewish Museum, NYC, USA (2.5.-7.9.2014) |
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Note: | Catalog of an exhibition held at the Jewish Museum, New York, May 2-September 7, 2014. |
Call Number: | N6537.B578 A4x 2014 |
Bibliography Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
ISBN: | 9780300197341 0300197349 |