Working Drawings and Other Visible Things on Paper Not Necessarily Meant to be Viewed as Art
  • artists' book
  • wrappers
  • photocopy / xeroxed
  • glue bound
  • black-and-white
  • 5 vol. : 5 vol. 28 x 21.5 cm. each ; 29 x 27.7 x 6.5 cm. (box)
  • 5 vol. : 4 vol. [182] pp. each ; 1 vol. 34 pp.
  • edition size 450
  • unsigned and unnumbered
  • ISBN 3883752649

Working Drawings and Other Visible Things on Paper Not Necessarily Meant to be Viewed as Art

Mel Bochner, Christophe Cherix, Laurent Jenny, James Meyer, Carl Andre, Anonymous, A. Babakhanian, Jo Baer, John Cage, M. Carsiodes, Tom Clancy, Dan Flavin, Jim Freed, Milton Glaser, Dan Graham, Eva Hesse, Alfred Jensen, Donald Judd, Michael Kirby, William Kolakoski, Robert Lepper, Sol LeWitt, Robert Mangold, Robert Moskowitz, Tom Russell, Robert Smithson, Kenneth Snelson, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Tippetts-Abbett-McCarthy-Stratton

Working Drawings and Other Visible Things on Paper Not Necessarily Meant to be Viewed as Art

description

Five volume boxed reprint / reimagining of a project first exhibited at the Visual Arts Gallery, School of Visual Arts, New York, December 2 - December, 1966 of notebook pages and working drawings compiled by Mel Bochner. Artists included Mel Bochner, Carl Andre, Anonymous, A. Babakhanian, Jo Baer, John Cage, M. Carsiodes, Tom Clancy, Dan Flavin, Jim Freed, Milton Glaser, Dan Graham, Eva Hesse, Alfred Jensen, Donald Judd, Michael Kirby, William Kolakoski, Robert Lepper, Sol LeWitt, Robert Mangold, Robert Moskowitz, Tom Russell, Robert Smithson, Kenneth Snelson, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Tippetts-Abbett-McCarthy-Stratton (engineers and architects) as well as pages from Scientific American. The exhibition consisted of four identical spiral bound books, each on their own pedestal. For this reissue four identical perfect bound books are housed in an unprinted slipcase accompanied by a catalogue with essays by Christophe Cherix, Laurent Jenny and James Meyer in parallel French and English.

references

"Book as Artwork 1960 / 1972" by Germano Celant. London, United Kingdom : Nigel Greenwood Inc. Ltd., 1972, pp. 63.
"Esthétique du Livre d'Artiste 1960 / 1980" by Anne Moeglin-Delcroix. Paris, France : Jean-Michel Place / Bibliothèque Nationale de France, 1997, pp. 147.
"Materializing Six Years : Lucy R. Lippard and the Emergence of Conceptual Art" by Catherine Morris, Vincent Bonin, Julia Bryan-Wilson. Brooklyn / Cambridge, NY / MA : Brooklyn Museum / MIT Press, 2012, pp. 110-114.
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