A white wall with a grid drawn on it. There are 16 staggered black squares throughout the grid. Some squares have fragments of slanted red,white, and blue grids.

Dispersed Perspective (One-Point) R.W.B.

1940 - 2025

Mel Bochner

American

Dispersed Perspective (One Point): R. W. B. is a striking, multi-part wall work that comprises mounted, colored photographs picturing portions of a perspectival grid, placed within another, non-perspectival grid, drawn in pencil on the wall. The work culminates a series of constructed photographic works that Bochner made in 1967 as part of an investigation described as "demonstrating by proxy the disparity... between the idealized Renaissance 'construction' of perspective and the 'reality' of how we see it."

Spray lacquer on gelatin silver print cut into 16 parts and mounted on Masonite, and graphite on wall

Photographs