Mel Bochner moved to New York in 1964. He belongs to a generation of artists who broke away from Abstract Expressionism in the early 1960s, paving the way for Conceptual Art. In 1966, at the School of Visual Arts, where he taught, Bochner presented what is often cited as the movement’s first exhibition: Working Drawings and Other Visible Things on Paper Not Necessarily Meant to Be Viewed as Art. The exhibition consisted of four bound volumes of Xeroxed pages, featuring drawings collected from artists including Donald Judd, Robert Smithson, Eva Hesse, Sol LeWitt, John Cage and others, as well as contributions from composers, choreographers and engineers.