Hardcover | 20.02 x 2.01 x 28.58 cm | 340 pp

MIT Press | 2008 | 9780262026314

Solar System & Rest Rooms collects both Mel Bochner's writings on art and his writings as art, offering more than fifty pieces reviews, art criticism, theoretical texts, interviews, catalogue statements, notecards, and his groundbreaking magazine interventions many reproduced in facsimile.

Bochner is a leading figure in conceptualism; his 1966 installation at the School of Visual Arts Gallery Working Drawings and Other Visible Things on Paper Not Necessarily Meant to Be Viewed as Art is considered to be the earliest exhibition of conceptual art. Solar System & Rest Rooms chronologically documents the work and ideas of this important artist over a span of forty years, as well as providing a unique perspective on the conceptual and post-minimal art scene in New York. This book offers a rare insight into what it means to be an artist whose visual practice is inseparable from the sustained practice of writing.