The Athenaeum’s Erika & Fred Torri Artists’ Books Collection

 
Book NumberArtistTitlePub. YearBox No.Comment
AB 2012.67Bochner, MelOn certainty1991167
AB 2012.69Bochner, MelWorking drawings and other visible things on paper not necessarily meant to be viewed as art1997178
AB 2012.70Bochner, MelPrimer 1973198
AB 2012.71Bochner, Mel11 excerpts197192
AB 2016.50Bochner, Mel(toward) Axiom of indifference, 1971-19731974198
AB 2016.70Bochner, MelFontana's light1991198
AB 2016.71Bochner, MelFrom A (Andre) to X (Xerox)2002198
AB 2016.74Bochner, MelMel Bochner1971198
AB 2016.75Bochner, MelMel Bochner: Centro de Arte y Comunicación1972198
AB 2016.76Bochner, MelVia Tasso1993198
AB 2016.77Bochner, MelNotes on theory1971198
AB 2016.78Bochner, MelA colouring book2012167
AB 2017.89Bochner, MelSinger notes, 196820171782 copies
AB 2017.90Bochner, MelPrimer: the complete catalog of twenty-one demonstrations from A theory of sculpture: (counting)2014176
AB 2018.52Bochner, MelTheory of sculpture: Fontana's light2012178
AB 2020.41Bochner, MelLanguage is not transparent2020216
RSM B664 miBochner, MelMisunderstandings…n.d.
 

In 2010, the Athenaeum published a booklet exploring the library’s complete collection of artist’s books by the much heralded contemporary artist Ed Ruscha. A second booklet focusing on the Athenaeum’s complete collection of Ida Applebroog’s artist's books was published in 2011. The third booklet on Allen Ruppersberg was published in 2012 and the fourth and fifth booklets (on John Baldessari and Bruce Nauman) were published in 2013. In 2016, the booklet on Roberta Allen’s complete collection was published, followed by booklets on Allan Kaprow and Mel Bochner in 2018. Currently a booklet on Sol LeWitt and a second edition of booklet on Ed Ruscha are in process. All booklets—catalogues raisonnés—are sent out to a list of national and international institutions interested in artists’ books.