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Working Drawings and Other Visible Things on Paper not Necessarily Meanto to be Viewed as Art
New York 1966

Item date(s): 1997

Mel Bochner
Christophe Cherix - (introduction by)

Pages: 34pp
Size: 280mm
Edition: One of 450 copies

Place publication: Köln, Germany
Publisher: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König
ISBN: 3-88375-264-9
Cat. 176-MPM3
Exhibition 2017

Additional notes:
Published in conjunction with Cabinet des estampes du Musee d'art et d'histoire and Picaron Editions, Geneva and Paris.

The edition of the Working Drawings and Other Visible Things on Paper not Necessarily Meanto to be Viewed as Art by Mel Bochner / Projets a l'etude / 1966-1996 at the Cabinet des estampes du Musee d'art et d'histoire, Geneva (27/2/97-13/4/97). The edition was printed from the photocopies dating from the 1966 installation contained in the first binder of the Working Drawings. For the present edition, 450 slipcased sets of four identical volumes and an accompanying brochure were printed.

Cardboard slipcase. [the inclusion of the four identical volumes is bizarre! - JMG]

Exhibition notes:
Item 0176 - MPM3 on Booknesses: Artists' books from the Jack Ginsberg Collection.

UJ Art Gallery, University of Johannesburg

25 March to 5 May 2017

Ref: GB/11080

Articles

The Second Degree: Working Drawings and Other Visible Things on Paper not Necessarily Meanto to be Viewed as Art
James Meyer (essay by)
p5

Unidentifiable Visible Objects
Laurent Jenny (essay by)
p19

Reading in Reverse of the Working Drawings and Other Visible Things on Paper not Necessarily Meanto to be Viewed as Art
Christophe Cherix (essay by)
p25