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Investigating Fourth Range

Thoughts on Illustration as Philosophy
Tuesday
Tuesday, October 20, 2015 - 12:20pm to 12:50pm

Anne Greer and Fredric B. Garonzik Family Gallery

Thomas E. Wartenberg, Professor of Philosophy 

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Mel Bochner (American, b. 1940), Fourth Range, 1973, ink on paper
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Reproduced with permission from the artist

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Mel Bochner (American, b. 1940), Fourth Range, 1973, ink on paper

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Mel Bochner (American, b. 1940), Endpapers from On Certainty (detail), 1991
July 21, 2015 to December 20, 2015
Mel Bochner

Illustrating Philosophy

How can a work of art illustrate an abstract philosophical idea?

In 1971, artist Mel Bochner began a series of drawings inspired by the writings of philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951). Twenty years later, he contributed a portfolio of prints based on those drawings to a new...

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Mel Bochner (America, b. 1940), Asterisk Branch from Counting Alternatives: The Wittgenstein Illustrations (detail), 1991
2015
Mel Bochner

Illustrating Philosophy

What would a visual image of a philosophical idea look like? Aren’t philosophical concepts, by virtue of their very abstractness, incapable of being rendered visually? These were some of the questions raised in the recent exhibition Mel Bochner: Illustrating Philosophy, which examined a...

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November 30, 2015
Thinking Through Images

Video recording of artist Mel Bochner in conversation with Thomas E. Wartenberg, Professor of Philosophy

 

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