ART MUSEUM: Reopening 1/28/2025
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Thinking Through Images
Tuesday
Tuesday, October 6, 2015 - 5:30pm
Gamble Auditorium, Art Building
Artist Mel Bochner in conversation with Thomas E. Wartenberg, Professor of Philosophy
Reception to follow
Tuesday, October 6, 2015 - 5:30pm
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Photo Credit:
Laura Shea; Reproduced with permission of the artist - VIEW OBJECT DETAILS
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Asterisk Branch, from Counting Alternatives: The Wittgenstein Illustrations, 1991
Mel Bochner (American, b. 1940) Planographic print on T.H. Saunders English mould-made paper 2015.3.1.10
Events And Links
November 30, 2015
Thinking Through Images
Video recording of artist Mel Bochner in conversation with Thomas E. Wartenberg, Professor of Philosophy
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...
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...
