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Title: Cool SMiLE Era Article
Post by: madlove on September 23, 2018, 07:30:02 PM
Did a search for "Bochner" and nothing came up...very interesting snapshot of that brief moment when everything and anything seemed possible.
ARTS MAGAZINE, March 1967
CRITIQUE - THE BEACH BOYS by Mel Bochner
"Good Vibrations is an inhuman work of art."


Title: Re: Cool SMiLE Era Article
Post by: JK on September 24, 2018, 12:27:39 AM
Did a search for "Bochner" and nothing came up...very interesting snapshot of that brief moment when everything and anything seemed possible.
ARTS MAGAZINE, March 1967
CRITIQUE - THE BEACH BOYS by Mel Bochner
"Good Vibrations is an inhuman work of art."


Wow. Thanks for that, ml. Your description says it all. And Jonathan King is a nincompoop.

But where's Brian in the picture? ;D


Title: Re: Cool SMiLE Era Article
Post by: JK on September 24, 2018, 12:38:45 AM
Couldn't this be the Mel Bochner in question? It's quite likely, age-wise and intelligence-wise...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_Bochner

https://brooklynrail.org/2006/05/art/in-conversation-mel-bochner-with-phong-bui

I see in the conversation he does mention a Douglas Wilson--but that's all! ;D