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GiveMel Bochner
Illustrating Philosophy
2015
Hardcover; 48 pages; 12 images within the text; 18 color plates
$19.95
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Photo Credit:
Laura Shea; Reproduced with permission of the artist - VIEW OBJECT DETAILS
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 specific project by the renowned conceptual artist. In the catalogue, Professor of Philosophy Thomas E. Wartenberg explores prints and drawings by Bochner that were published as illustrations to the 1991 Arion Press edition of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s On Certainty. Wartenberg shows how Bochner translates Wittgenstein’s revolutionary claims about knowledge and doubt into visual images.
Events And Links
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...
November 30, 2015
Thinking Through Images
Video recording of artist Mel Bochner in conversation with Thomas E. Wartenberg, Professor of Philosophy
October 20, 2015 | Anne Greer and Fredric B. Garonzik Family Gallery
Investigating Fourth Range
Thoughts on Illustration as Philosophy
Gallery Talk
Thomas E. Wartenberg, Professor of Philosophy
