Artworks · Mel Bochner

Double Square Branch, from Counting Alternatives: The Wittgenstein Illustrations

1971 · Color line photo-engraving on off-white wove paper

Image: 47.5 × 38 cm (18 3/4 × 15 in.); Sheet: 50.7 × 38 cm (20 × 15 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Line Branch, from Counting Alternatives: The Wittgenstein Illustrations

1971 · Color line photo-engraving on off-white wove paper

Image: 43.5 × 37.9 cm (17 3/16 × 14 15/16 in.); Sheet: 50.6 × 37.9 cm (19 15/16 × 14 15/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Plus Branch, from Counting Alternatives: The Wittgenstein Illustrations

1971 · Color line photo-engraving on off-white wove paper

Image: 47 × 37.9 cm (18 9/16 × 14 15/16 in.); Sheet: 50.8 × 37.9 cm (20 × 14 15/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

X Branch, from Counting Alternatives: The Wittgenstein Illustrations

1971 · Color line photo-engraving on off-white wove paper

Image: 44.5 × 37.9 cm (17 9/16 × 14 15/16 in.); Sheet: 50.7 × 37.9 cm (20 × 14 15/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Asterisk Branch, from Counting Alternatives: The Wittgenstein Illustrations

1971 · Color line photo-engraving on off-white wove paper

Image: 44 × 38 cm (17 3/8 × 15 in.); Sheet: 50.6 × 38 cm (19 15/16 × 15 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Seven Branch, from Counting Alternatives: The Wittgenstein Illustrations

1971 · Color line photo-engraving on off-white wove paper

Image: 44.4 × 38 cm (17 1/2 × 15 in.); Sheet: 50.7 × 38 cm (20 × 15 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Inverted Y Branch, from Counting Alternatives: The Wittgenstein Illustrations

1971 · Color line photo-engraving on off-white wove paper

Image: 45.5 × 38 cm (17 15/16 × 15 in.); Sheet: 50.7 × 38 cm (20 × 15 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Eight Branch, from Counting Alternatives: The Wittgenstein Illustrations

1971 · Color line photo-engraving on off-white wove paper

Image: 43.5 × 38 cm (17 3/16 × 15 in.); Sheet: 50.7 × 38 cm (20 × 15 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

T Branch, from Counting Alternatives: The Wittgenstein Illustrations

1971 · Color line photo-engraving on off-white wove paper

Image: 45.2 × 38 cm (17 13/16 × 15 in.); Sheet: 50.7 × 38 cm (20 × 15 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Triangle Branch, from Counting Alternatives: The Wittgenstein Illustrations

1971 · Color line photo-engraving on off-white wove paper

Image: 46.2 × 38 cm (18 1/4 × 15 in.); Sheet: 50.6 × 38.2 cm (19 15/16 × 15 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Square Branch, from Counting Alternatives: The Wittgenstein Illustrations

1971 · Color line photo-engraving on off-white wove paper

Image: 45 × 37.9 cm (17 3/4 × 14 15/16 in.); Sheet: 50.8 × 38 cm (20 × 15 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Translation

1971 · Felt-tip pen on graph paper

14 x 17" (35.5 x 43.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Continuous/Dis/Continuous

1971 · Pencil, red and black felt-tipped pens and blue carpenter's chalk on torn masking tape and wall

Approximately 2" (5.1 cm) high, length variable

Museum of Modern Art

"8" Branch from Counting Alternative Series (The Wittgenstein Illustrations)

1971 · Felt-tip pen, colored pencil, ink, and pencil on paper

22 3/8 x 30" (56.8 x 76.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

3 Ideas and 7 Procedures (Theory of Arithmetic), Sheet #1. Proposal for MoMA Exhibition

1971 · Felt-tip pen and masking tape on graph paper

11 x 16 1/2" (27.9 x 42.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

3 Ideas and 7 Procedures (Theory of Arithmetic), Sheet #2. Proposal for MoMA Exhibition

1971 · Felt-tip pen, pencil, and masking tape on graph paper

11 x 16 1/2" (27.9 x 42.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Misunderstandings (A Theory of Photography)

1970 · Manila envelope, nine index cards, letterpress print

12.8 × 20.2 (cards/print)

Art Institute of Chicago

Misunderstandings (A Theory of Photography)

1970 · Photo offset print on white wove paper

12.7 × 20.4 cm (5 × 8 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Misunderstandings (A Theory of Photography)

1970 · Photo offset print on white, lined notecard

12.7 × 20.4 cm (5 × 8 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Misunderstandings (A Theory of Photography)

1970 · Photo offset print on white, lined notecard

12.7 × 20.4 cm (5 × 8 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Misunderstandings (A Theory of Photography)

1970 · Photo offset print on white, lined notecard

12.7 × 20.4 cm (5 × 8 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Misunderstandings (A Theory of Photography)

1970 · Photo offset print on white, lined notecard

12.7 × 20.4 cm (5 × 8 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Misunderstandings (A Theory of Photography)

1970 · Photo offset print on white, lined notecard

12.7 × 20.4 cm (5 × 8 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Misunderstandings (A Theory of Photography)

1970 · Photo offset print on white, lined notecard

12.7 × 20.4 cm (5 × 8 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Misunderstandings (A Theory of Photography)

1970 · Photo offset print on white, lined notecard

12.7 × 20.4 cm (5 × 8 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Misunderstandings (A Theory of Photography)

1970 · Photo offset print on white, lined notecard

12.7 × 20.4 cm (5 × 8 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Misunderstandings (A Theory of Photography)

1970 · Portfolio of nine photo offset prints on white, lined notecard; one manilla envelope with offset print on recto; one photo offset print on white wove paper

12.7 × 20.4 cm (5 × 8 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Milan Number Block

1970 · Transfer type on paper

17 3/4 x 15" (45.1 x 38.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Misunderstandings (A Theory of Photography) from Artists & Photographs

1970 · Offset envelope, containing ten offset cards, from a portfolio of nineteen printed objects

card (each): 5 x 8" (12.7 x 20.3 cm); envelope: 6 x 9" (15.2 x 22.9 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Language is not transparent

1969 · Ink on paper

support: 247 x 179 mm framed: 446 x 324 mm

Tate

8" Measurement

1969 · Black fiber-tipped pen on white wove graph paper

27.9 × 21.7 cm (11 × 8 9/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Measurement: Wall

1969 · Vinyl on wall

Dimensions vary with installation, wall at least: H.: 365.8 cm (144 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Measurement Room

1969 · Tape and Letraset

Dimensions variable

Museum of Modern Art

Counting (#2) (Rocks)

1969 · Felt-tip pen on paper

7 1/4 x 6 3/4" (18.3 x 17.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Counting (Rocks)

1969 · Felt-tip pen on paper

7 1/4 x 6 3/4" (18.3 x 17.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Alfaville, Godard's Apocalypse

1968 · Four digitally printed pages on white wove paper

30.2 × 22.5 cm (11 15/16 × 8 7/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Proposal for a Wall Piece; Grids

1968 · Graphite and pen and brown ink on ivory wove paper

45.7 × 61 cm (18 × 24 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Surface Dis/Tension: Offset (RB)

1968 · Offset lithograph

composition (irreg.): 18 1/16 x 17 5/16" (45.8 x 44 cm); sheet: 18 1/2 x 17 13/16" (47 x 45.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Measurement

1968 · Felt-tip pen on paper with folds

11 × 11" (27.9 × 27.9 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Proposal for Wall Piece: Shift

1968 · Linen tape, oil, and pencil on paper

18 x 24" (45.7 x 61 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Imagine the Enclosed Area Blue (Study for Installation, Yale, Norfolk)

1968 · Blue carpenter's chalk and ink on graph paper

16 x 22" (40.6 x 55.9 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Beach Boys–100%

1967 · Digital print on white wove paper

36 × 21.6 cm (14 3/16 × 8 9/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Sixteen Isomorphs (Negative)

1967 · Gelatin silver prints mounted on board

49.5 × 49.5 cm (19 5/8 × 19 9/16 in.); Installed: 226.1 × 355.6 cm (89 1/16 × 140 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled (Study for Isomorphic Circles)

1967 · Graphite on drafting vellum

21.6 × 28 cm (8 1/2 × 11 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

8 Square Inches, 4 Measurements

1967 · Felt-tip pen and ink on graph paper

14 × 16 7/8" (35.6 × 42.9 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Projected Plan for 42 Photographs Tri-Axial Rotation of a Cube

1966 · Black, red, yellow, and green felt-tip pen over graphite on printed, cream wove graph paper

44.1 × 56.2 cm (17 3/8 × 22 1/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled (Study for Cantor's Paradox)

1966 · Pen and black ink on cream wove paper

18 × 14 cm (7 1/8 × 5 9/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Study for Sculpture (5-Part Progression)

1966 · Black fiber-tipped pen on blue-lined graph paper

28 × 21.6 cm (11 1/16 × 8 9/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago