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ID: 500032444 Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500032444			Record Type: Person

Bochner, Mel (American conceptual artist, 1940-2025)

Note: Bochner's artwork prioritizes language, serial systems, and conceptual ideas over the physical object.

Names:
	Bochner, Mel (preferred,V,index,LC,English-P,NA,U)
	Bochner, Mel (Dutch-P,NA)
	Mel Bochner (V,display)
	בוצנר, מל (U,Hebrew-P,NA,U)
	Bochner, Melvin Simon (V)

Nationalities:
	American (preferred)

Roles:
	artist (preferred)
	conceptual artist
	painter
	draftsman
	sculptor
	writer

Gender: male


Birth and Death Places:
	Born: Pittsburgh (Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, United States) (inhabited place) Died: Manhattan (New York City, New York state, United States) (borough)

Events:

active:

New York City (New York state, United States) (inhabited place)

Related People or Corporate Bodies:

colleague of ....	Hesse, Eva
......................	(American sculptor, born in Germany, 1936-1970) [500026528]

colleague of ....	LeWitt, Sol
......................	(American painter and sculptor, 1928-2007) [500115429]

colleague of ....	Smithson, Robert
......................	(American sculptor and conceptual artist, 1938-1973) [500015753]

List/Hierarchical Position:

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Persons, Artists

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Bochner, Mel (I)

Biographies:

(American conceptual artist, 1940-2025) ..... [VP Preferred]
(American artist, b.1940) ..... [BHA]
(American artist, 20th cent.) ..... [WCP]
(American artist, b.1940) ..... [WCI]
(American artist, born 1940) ..... [WL-Courtauld]
(American sculptor, born 1940) ..... [CL-Courtauld]
(American conceptual artist) ..... [Grove Art]
(artist, born 1940) ..... [GRL]
(artist, active 20th century) ..... [GRISC]
(American artist, born 1940) ..... [MoMA]
(American painter, born 1940) ..... [IMJ]
(American painter, 1940-) ..... [RKD]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:

בוצנר, מל ........	[IMJ]
..................	Israel Museum Jerusalem database

Bochner, Mel ........	[BHA Preferred, CL-Courtauld Preferred, GRISC Preferred, GRL Preferred, Grove Art Preferred, IMJ Preferred, MoMA Preferred, RKD Preferred, WCI Preferred, WCP Preferred, WL-Courtauld Preferred]
..........................	Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
..........................	Database for the Witt Checklist of Painters c. 1200-1976 (1978-)
..........................	Grove Art artist database (1989-)
..........................	Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
..........................	Israel Museum Jerusalem database
..........................	Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 85170665
..........................	RKD Artists database (2000-) 9460
..........................	Witt Library, Authority files

Bochner, Melvin Simon ........	[VP]
...........................................	New York Times [online] (2000-) obit.

Mel Bochner ........	[GRISC, MoMA, VP]
........................	Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
........................	Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
........................	Whitney Biennial Exhibition (2004) 155

Subject: ........	[BHA, CL-Courtauld, Gallery Systems, GRISC, GRL, Grove Art, IMJ, MoMA, RKD, VP, WCI, WCP, WL-Courtauld]
....................	Database for the Witt Checklist of Painters c. 1200-1976 (1978-)
....................	Gallery Systems (2000-) LOC ID: n85170665
....................	Goldstein and Rorimer, Reconsidering the Object of Art (1995) 82
....................	Grove Art artist database (1989-)
....................	Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
....................	Israel Museum Jerusalem database
....................	Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) LOC ID: n85170665
....................	RKD Artists database (2000-) 9460
....................	Whitney Biennial Exhibition (2004) 155
....................	Who's Who in American Art (1936-) 1986
....................	Wikidata online (2000-) Q1485390
....................	Witt Library, Authority files


Note:
English	..........	[CL-Courtauld, VP, WL-Courtauld]
	..........	Whitney Biennial Exhibition (2004) 155

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