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Mel Bochner
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In a culture as visually glutted as ours, there can be something very pleasing about the ascetic embodiments of "idea art," a respite from the visual onslaughts to which we're accustomed. When you've spent the day being pummeled by advertising, one of William Anastasi's "unsighted" subway series drawings, with its two little clouds of vibratory scribble floating near the top of a small, creamy square of plain paper, is calming. Of course, as Art, its claims run much deeper. In this case, the term idea art to refers loosely to a vein of art that often stresses intellectual over aesthetic presence and has been deeply concerned with the idea of Art and the idea of the Artist. How different in spirit are Anastasi's "sightless" drawings and Joseph Smith's work with his Urim and Thummim? To t...
... pioneers of idea art, Sol LeWitt and Mel Bochner, as well as newer members of the club like Christi...
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.... (67.) Dan Flavin to Mel Bochner, November 1, 1966, quoted in Govan, "Irony and Lig...
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DAYTON -- Have you ever wondered what was going on in the mind of the artist when he or she was creating the work you're viewing at an art museum or gallery? Here's your chance to find out.
...Mel Bochner uses language -- words and phrases -- in his paint...
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...: Toward a Meta-Medium Practice in Mel Bochner and Robert Smithson's 'The Domain of the Great Bea...
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BANGOR - Throw away your rulers, yardsticks and T squares. Turn your back on the latest quilt magazines and books. Abandon for the moment that stash of $8-per-yard fabric. Take a lesson from Arbie Williams, whose square-in-square quilt is made of brown, tan, green and dark purple flannel set off by three strips of red floral brocade that looks as though, in a former life, it served as draperies. Notice how things in Williams' quilt don't line up precisely, point to point, and see how that's part of what makes the quilt such a delight to look at. Williams' quilt is one of 18 in "No Two Alike: African-American Improvisations on a Traditional Patchwork Pattern," the current exhibit at the University of Maine Museum of Art in downtown Bangor. The exhibit brilliantly illustrates the magic th...
... Quartet - Fourth Quartet," by artist Mel Bochner, part of a fine arts exhibit also at the museum, e...
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By now, word is wide spread about 22-year-old graffiti artist Daniel Montano, who was arrested Jan. 16, two days prior to the opening of the latest "Gestures" exhibition at the Mattress Factory, an experimental museum and breeding ground for installation art on the North Side. Montano faces a trial set for May 12 at which he must defend as many as 50 counts of criminal mischief. All are related to graffiti, after the young man allegedly went "all city," the result of "bombing" Pittsburgh neighborhoods, mostly in the East End, with his tag "MFONE.
... Smithson and (Pittsburgh-native) Mel Bochner in 1966, describing an apocalyptic landscape in po...
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It may be argued that it's not really fair to consider Thomas Ashcraft's exhibition at the Center for Contemporary Arts until it's over. Codices: Heliotown is in a constantly evolving state, touched and tweaked daily by Ashcraft, who tunes the small details as carefully as he adjusts the homebuilt radio telescopes that provide the basis and inspiration for much of the work. The underlying themes and insinuations that have infused Ashcraft's work for decades include allusions to science fiction, magical realism, medicinal drugs, botany, biology and astronomy. Ashcraft pulls these influences (and doubtless many others) together into an ongoing personal mythology that asserts itself in the visual and material form of log books, vitrine, bell jar displays, experiments, money and a kind of w...
...As the artist Mel Bochner said earlier this year about his own and Donald Ju...
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Among the post-World War II artistic movements, the Situationist International stands out with its persistent, grandiloquent claim to transcend art in a revolutionary act. The critical commitment of the Situationists has resulted in their omission from art history. Rasmussen discusses the way the Situationists, especially Guy Debord, conceived the role of the avant garde, and focuses on the conflicting views on the role of art that characterized the group from 1957 to around 1962, when more or less all artists were expelled from the group.
... art and minimalism, such as Mel Bochner, Dan Graham, Robert Morris, and Carl Andre, all ex...
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Anne Hardy Bellwether 134 Tenth Avenue Through May 17 In one of Anne Hardy's large color photos at Bellwether, a cramped firing range is illuminated by a suspended fluorescent light, the walls and sloppily extruding foam insulation all painted black; another shot features a small greenhouse filled with drooping plants, the ceiling made from plastic sheeting held in place with black-and-yellow caution tape. CaWn (2008) features partitions of sound-dampening foam rubber, the zigzagging gray lines contrasting with cigarette butts, colorful detritus, and deflated black balloons scattered on the floor like the remains of some rock band's celebration (or tantrum).
...2J2-755-2828. Through May 29. Mel Bochner. The newest "Thesaurus" canvases continue Bochner'...
