Artists & Photographs
Mel Bochner
American, 1940–2025
Christo
American, born Bulgaria. 1935–2020
Jan Dibbets
Dutch, born 1941
Tom Gormley
American, born 1937
Dan Graham
American, 1942–2022
Douglas Huebler
American, 1924–1997
Allan Kaprow
American, 1927–2006
Michael Kirby
American, 1931–1997
Joseph Kosuth
American, born 1945
Sol LeWitt
American, 1928–2007
Richard Long
British, born 1945
Robert Morris
American, 1931–2018
Bruce Nauman
American, born 1941
Dennis Oppenheim
American, 1938–2011
Robert Rauschenberg
American, 1925–2008
Edward Ruscha
American, born 1937
Robert Smithson
American, 1938–1973
Bernar Venet
French, born 1941
Andy Warhol
American, 1928–1987
1965–70, published 1970
A boxed portfolio assembled by Mel Bochner that gathers nineteen printed artists’ publications and a brochure—small printed sheets, folded booklets, and reproduced photographs presented together as a single conceptual work about images and distribution.
It reads like an artist’s desk opened for inspection: a shallow box spilling monochrome and color photocopies, accordion folds, tiny pamphlets, a toy bookshelf and black cards with white text, an organized jumble that feels archival and conversational.
By making multiples, pamphlets, and reproduced photographs the artwork itself, Bochner helped shift art’s focus from unique objects to systems of reproduction, language, and circulation—a crucial gesture in Conceptual art that opened up editions, documentation, and artists’ publications as primary media.
Medium
Portfolio of nineteen printed artist’s publications and a brochure in a cardboard box
Dimensions
overall (box): 3 11/16 x 13 1/16 x 13 3/16" (9.3 x 33.2 x 33.5 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Art & Project/Depot VBVR Gift
Accession
1103.2007.1-19
Palette
Art Terms
Exhibitions
