The New York Times reports this evening that artist
Mel Bochner died on February 12, 2025.
Related theology — Opus 47.
Friday, February 21, 2025
In Memoriam
Tuesday, September 28, 2021
In Search of Hauora
Compare and contrast with —
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Related material: Mel Bochner and Carnegie-Mellon.
Alfred Bester fans may also enjoy more
damned confusion from Dan Brown —
(Not to be confused with Gully Foyle .)
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Saturday, April 3, 2021
Sunday, January 3, 2021
Joke
George Clooney to Matt Damon —
“There’s a Michelangelo joke to be made.”
A search in this journal for Michelangelo suggests . . .
How about "Bach meets Bochner"?
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Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Levity
"Here, Bochner plays with these elements with the philosophical levity that made Conceptual art (which art historians see Bochner as one of the kingpins) so refreshing, graceful, and funny, especially after a generation of painters made artmaking seem so serious, heavy, emotional." —ArtSlant.com
See also The Wikipedia Meno and Bochner in this journal.
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Saturday, October 3, 2009
Saturday October 3, 2009
Related material:
Frame Tales, as well as
The Sacred Day of Kali,
this morning's
New York Times obituaries,
and
Mental Health Month, 2003:
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Monday, June 22, 2009
Monday June 22, 2009
Text
Today's birthday:
Kris Kristofferson
Kris Kristofferson
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Online Etymology Dictionary
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"Discuss the geometry
underlying the above picture."
— Log24, June 11, 2009
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Thursday, June 11, 2009
Thursday June 11, 2009
Geometry for Jews
(continued from Michelangelo's birthday, 2003)
"Discuss the geometry underlying the above picture."
Abstraction and the Holocaust (Mark Godfrey, Yale University Press, 2007) describes one approach to such a discussion: Bochner "took a photograph of a new arrangement of blocks, cut it up, reprinted it as a negative, and arranged the four corners in every possible configuration using the serial principles of rotation and reversal to make Sixteen Isomorphs (Negative) of 1967, which he later illustrated alongside works by Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt and Eva Hesse in his Artforum article 'The Serial Attitude.' [December 1967, pp. 28-33]" Bochner's picture of "every possible configuration"–
Compare with the 24 figures in Frame Tales
(Log24, Nov. 10, 2008) and in Theme and Variations.
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Thursday June 11, 2009
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