The art of Bruce Nauman (1967) / Fidel A. Danieli -- PheNAUMANology (1970) / Marcia Tucker -- Bruce Nauman : another kind of reasoning (1972) / Robert Pincus-Witten -- Breaking the silence : an interview with Bruce Nauman (1988) / Bruce Nauman and Joan Simon -- Three statements on the recent reception of Bruce Nauman (1995) / John Miller, Pamela M. Lee, and Isabelle Graw -- Nauman's Beckett walk (1998) / Kathryn Chiong -- Dependent participation : Bruce Nauman's environments (2003) / Janet Kraynak -- Nauman's body of sculpture (2007) / Anne M. Wagner -- Video promenades : Nauman taking architecture for a walk (2011) / Rosalind Kraus -- Bruce Nauman going solo (2012) / Robert Slifkin -- Deceptive practice (2018) / Jeffrey Weiss -- Small fires burning : Bruce Nauman and the activation of conceptual art (2018) / Taylor Walsh.
Summary:
This volume collects essential texts on the work of Bruce Nauman (b. 1941), an artist of exceptional range whose work continues to probe the fundamentals of both life and art. These critical writings, scholarly essays, and an interview span five decades of Nauman's career, ranging from the first substantive feature on his work, published in 1967, to a catalog essay from his 2018 retrospective. Written by prominent critics, art historians, and curators, the individual texts consider his work in various media, from photography and artists' books to sculpture, video, and room-scaled installations.Taken together, the essays trace the arc of critical reception given to Nauman's work, charting the (somewhat uneven) path to his current eminence as one of our truly indispensable living artists.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.