Please Pay Attention Please: Bruce Nauman's Words
Subtitle: Writings and Interviews (Writing Art)
Contributors: Janet Kraynak (Editor)
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: November 1, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 426
ISBN-13: 9780262140829
Subjects: Biography: general; History Of Art / Art & Design Styles; Individual artists; The Arts: General Issues; 20th Century Art; Art & Art Instruction; Art; American - General; Essays; Individual Artist; Art / Individual Artist; Nauman, Bruce; Artists, Architects, Photographers; History - General; 1941-; Artists; Interviews; Nauman, Bruce,; United States
Description: "Please Pay Attention Please contains all of Nauman's major interviews from 1985 to 2001, as well as a comprehensive body of his writings, including instructions and proposal texts, dialogues transcribed from audio-video works, and prose texts written specifically for installation sculptures.

Where relevant, the texts are accompanied by illustrations of the artworks for which they were composed. In the critical essay that serves as the book's introduction, the editor investigates Nauman's art in relation to the linguistic turn in art practices of the 1960s - understanding language through the speech-act - and its legacy in contemporary ad."--Jacket.