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Robert Storr
How can we interpret the work of contemporary artists? Focal Points is a new book series of essays, articles and reviews by acclaimed curator and critic Robert Storr. Expertly edited…
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Bruce Nauman
A Pioneer of Media Art
The American Bruce Nauman (b. Fort Wayne, US, 1941; lives and works in New Mexico, US) ranks among the preeminent visual artists of our time…
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Robert Storr (Open University),Joan Simon
Working in mediums such as sculpture, video, film, installation, performance, and printmaking, the author connects you to physical realities of violence, sex, and death with visceral, spiritual messages, like an…
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Essential texts on the work of Bruce Nauman, spanning the five decades of the artist’s career.
A journey through the groundbreaking works of Bruce Nauman, one of the most restlessly inventive contemporary artists of today.
Robert C. Morgan
Working in a variety of media since the mid-1960s, Bruce Nauman has persisted in exploring both art as an investigation of the self and the power of language to define…
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In the late 1960s, while still a recent graduate with scant means, artist Bruce Nauman (born 1941) explored a trio of interwoven subjects: the studio, the daily practice of making…
Emma Dexter
Bruce Nauman (1941 -) is arguably the most influential artist at work in the world today. His pioneering explorations of sculpture, performance, film, video, neon and sound art have seen…
This publication marks the acquisition of Bruce Nauman’s new, monumental work Contrapposto Studies, I through VII by the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Frandcois Pinault Collection, Venice and Paris…
Eugen Blume
Some forty-odd years after Bruce Nauman began tweaking the conventions of studio practice and the hallowed persona of the ‘artist-as-seer, ’ Pamela M. Lee wrote in Artforum not long ago…
Isabel Friedli
At 76 years old, Bruce Nauman is widely acknowledged as a central figure in contemporary art whose stringent questioning of values such as good and bad remains urgent today. Throughout…
With a magician’s sleight of hand, Nauman’s art makes disappearance visible
At 76 years old, Bruce Nauman is widely acknowledged as a central figure in contemporary art whose stringent questioning…
One of the most complex and fascinating artists, Bruce Nauman (b 1941) has assembled a mesmerizing body of work that encompasses video, installation, drawing, sculpture, printmaking, photography, and neon. This…
Peter Plagens
The most comprehensive overview of the art of Bruce Nauman.
Constance M. Lewallen,Dore Bowen
The first book devoted solely to Bruce Nauman’s corridors and other architectural installations, Bruce Nauman: Spatial Encounters deftly explores the significance of these works in the development of his singular…
Catalog of an exhibition held at the Pirelli Hangar Bicocca, Milan, Italy, September 15, 2022-February 26, 2023.
Images of nearly all Bruce Nauman’s signs and room installation using neon and fluorescent light, from Window or Wall Sign (1967) to the monumental One Hundred Live and Die (1984)…
With a body of work that encompasses video, drawing, sculpture, printmaking, photography, and neon, Bruce Nauman (born 1941) is one of the most innovative artists of his generation. Through a…
Adi Louria-Hayon
This book investigates the audio/visual works created by American artist Bruce Nauman (b.1941) from 1965 to the present. A particular attention is given to sensual perception and the limits of…
Studies the impossibility of human coexistence in the work of Philippe Vandenberg and Bruce Nauman.
E.Bruce Nauman
Offers information on optimization and scaleup methodologies, numerical methods, and biochemical and polymer reactions. This book covers the fundamentals and principles of chemical reactor design, along with applications. It presents…
The most comprehensive collection to date of the artist Bruce Nauman’s writings and all of his major interviews from 1965 to 2001.
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Ewa Bobrowska
This book focuses on the collaboration of Derrida, Lyotard, Hillis Miller, and others at the Critical Theory Institute at UC Irvine and on critical theory as a methodology for the…
National Gallery Berlin presents the artistic exchange during the 1960s in New York and Dusseldorf, 1980s in Cologne, and 1990s in Berlin and Los Angeles.
Karen Kelly,Lynne Cook
Edited by Lynne Cooke, Karen Kelly and Barbara Schroder. Essays by Dave Hickey, Rosalind Krauss, Ulrich Loock, Alexander Alberro, Jan Avgikos, Richard Shiff, Dirk Snauwaert, Miwon Kwon, Colin Gardner. Foreword…
The publication looks at contemporary artistic practices that turn spaces into places. Together with artists, designers, architects, curators, historians, theoreticians and philosophers, it questions the experience, imagination and design of…
