Mel Bochner and Multiples, Inc.
Misunderstandings (A Theory of Photography)
1969
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Physical Qualities
Offset lithographs and manila envelope, Sheet: 127 x 204 mm. (5 x 8 1/16 in.)
Portfolio/Series
From the series "Artists & Photographs"
Credit Line
Sidney M. Friedberg Accessions Fund for Prints and Drawings
Object Number
2003.222.1a-k
Consists of reproductions of nine ruled index cards with quotes regarding photography by Mao Tse-Tung, James J. Gibson, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Taine, Encyclopedia Brittanica, Marcel Duchamp, Marcel Proust, Emile Zola, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty written in the artist's hand, along with a photgraphic image of the artist's hand, all stored in a manila envelope with the title and the artist's name on the front
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 2003; Denis Ozanne Rare Books, Paris, France.
Kristen Hileman, BMA. "Seeing now: Photography Since 1960," February 20-May 15, 2011.
Signed: one
Inscribed: RECTO of envelope: "MISUNDERSTANDINGS/ (A THEORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY)/ MEL BOCHNER"; flap of envelope: "c. Multiples, Inc. N.Y. 1970"
Publisher
Multiples, Inc.
Multiples, Inc. was founded by Marian Goodman in 1965.
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