Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 700.92
EAN num: 9780935640427
ISBN number: 0935640428
Label: Distributed Art Pub Inc (Dap)
Manufacturer: Distributed Art Pub Inc (Dap)
Page Count: 216
Printing Date: 1994-07
Publishing house: Distributed Art Pub Inc (Dap)
Sale Popularity Level: 2069982
Studio: Distributed Art Pub Inc (Dap)
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First book-length study of the life and works of the influential multimedia artist.
'From the beginning I was trying to see if I could make art that did that. Art that was just there all at once. Like getting hit in the face with a baseball bat. Or better yet, like getting hit in the back of the neck. You never see it coming; it just knocks you down. I like that idea very much: the kind of intensity that doesn't give you any trace of whether you're going to like it or not.'—Bruce Nauman
One of America's most important artists, Bruce Nauman has worked in a dazzling variety of media since the mid-1960s: sculpture, photography, performance, installation, sound, holography, film, and video. What has been a constant throughout his career, however, is his persistence in exploring both art as an investigation of the self and the power of language to define that self.
The latest volume in the acclaimed Art + Performance series is the very first book to combine the key critical writings on Nauman with the artist's own writings and interviews with him, as well as images of his work. Bruce Nauman offers a multifaceted portrait of an artist whose determination to experiment with style and form has created a body of work as eclectic and perhaps more influential than that of any other living American artist.
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Bruce Nauman is the most amazing artist I have ever seen.
I was not much into moder art, until I saw Clown Torture and From Hand to Mouth at the Tate Modern in London.
Since then I am a looking for his work whetherever I can find it.
I felt a bit let down by this book because I expected reproductions of his work instead it is almost exclusively made up by interviews with him or short articles written by him. There might be 10 pages of reproduction in the whole book. Some of his neon work.
In particular there is no reproduction of Clown Torture in the whole book, inspite of the fact that the head of the clown is on the cover.
I think the book could be great if you are a scolar, or (for wathever reason) want to read what he says about his work, but it is not very good if you want to see reproductions.
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