{"id":420,"date":"2006-11-08T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-08T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matthewlangley.com\/blog\/?p=420"},"modified":"2006-11-08T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-08T19:00:00","slug":"light-reading-from-mel-bochner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/?p=420","title":{"rendered":"&quot;Light Reading&quot; from Mel Bochner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.matthewlangley.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/tnail_boch_3-732271.jpg\"><img style=\"cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.matthewlangley.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/tnail_boch_3-729486.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a quick link to the always amazing UBUWEB. <\/p>\n<p><b>Excerpts From Speculation (1967-1970)<\/b><br \/>Mel Bochner<\/p>\n<p>For a variety of reasons I do not like the term \u201cconceptual art.\u201d Connotations of an easy dichotomy with perception are obvious and inappropriate. The unfortunate implication is of a somewhat magical\/mystical leap from one mode of existence to another. The problem is the confusion of idealism and intention. By creating an original fiction, \u201cconceptualism\u201d posits its special nonempirical existence as a positive (transcendent) value. But no amount of qualification (or documentation) can change the situation. Outside the spoken word, no thought can exist without a sustaining support.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubu.com\/papers\/bochner_speculation.html\" target=\"_newsy\">Read the whole thing here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a quick link to the always amazing UBUWEB. Excerpts From Speculation (1967-1970)Mel Bochner For a variety of reasons I do not like the term \u201cconceptual art.\u201d Connotations of an easy dichotomy with perception are obvious and inappropriate. The unfortunate implication is of a somewhat magical\/mystical leap from one mode of existence to another. The problem is the confusion of idealism and intention. By creating an original fiction, \u201cconceptualism\u201d posits its special nonempirical existence as a positive (transcendent) value. But no amount of qualification (or documentation) can change the situation. Outside the spoken word, no thought can exist without&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/?p=420\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&quot;Light Reading&quot; from Mel Bochner<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[133,151,92,98],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}