Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Mel Bochner

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American artist Mel Bochner.
Last updated on November 8, 2024.
Mel Bochner

Mel Bochner is an American conceptual artist. Bochner received his BFA in 1962 and honorary Doctor of Fine Arts in 2005 from the School of Art at Carnegie Mellon University. He lives in New York City.

In 1967 there was no place for photography in a contemporary art gallery. It was almost impossible to get an art dealer to look at, let alone exhibit, anything photographic.
Photography was seen as the enemy of all the values of late modernism... and as things turned out, it was. — © Mel Bochner
Photography was seen as the enemy of all the values of late modernism... and as things turned out, it was.
Photography Cannot Record Abstract Ideas (Title of a 16x20 inch photograph depicting an index card on which that phrase is handwritten.)
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