Bruce Nauman
Subtitle: disappearing acts
By: edited by Kathy Halbreich with Isabel Friedli, Heidi Naef, Magnus Schaefer, and Taylor Walsh
Contributors: Halbreich, Kathy, editor; Friedli, Isabel, contributor; Naef, Heidi, contributor; Schaefer, Magnus, contributor; Walsh, Taylor, contributor; Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.); Schaulager (Art museum : Münchenstein, Switzerland); P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center; Laurenz-Stiftung
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 355
ISBN-13: 9781633450318; 9783906315102
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Neon sculpture; Exhibitions; Neon lighting in art; Themes, motives; Criticism and interpretation; Video art; Abstract Sculpture; Process art; Installations (Art); Postmodernism; Male artists
Other titles: Disappearing acts
Work titles: Works
Description: Bruce Nauman is widely acknowledged as a central figure in contemporary art, and the stringent questioning of values --both aesthetic and moral-- that has long sustained his project remains urgent today. For more than fifty years, Nauman has explored how mutable experiences of time, space, sound, movement, and language provide an insecure foundation for our understanding of our place in the world. This richly illustrated catalogue, which includes rare and previously unpublished images, offers a comprehensive view of the artist's work in all media --including drawings; early fiberglass sculptures; sound environments; architecturally scaled, participatory constructions; rhythmically blinking neons; and a recent 3-D video that harks back to one of Nauman's earliest performances. A wide range of authors --artists, curators, and historians of art, architecture, and film-- focus on topics that have been largely neglected, such as the architectural structures that posit real or imaginary spaces as models for ethical inquiry and mechanisms of control. Curator Kathy Halbreich's introductory essay explores Nauman's many acts of disappearance, withdrawal, and deflection as revelatory of his central formal and intellectual concerns. Eighteen further contributions tease out the various themes that run through this protean and elusive artist's work.
Notes: "Published in conjunction with the exhibition Bruce Nauman: Disappearing Acts, at the Schaulager Basel, March 17-August 26, 2018, and The Museum of Modern Art, New York, October 21, 2018-March 17, 2019 (MoMA) and October 21, 2018-March 24, 2019 (MoMA PS1)" --Page 353.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-335) and index.

Text in English, with some selections translated from the German.
Table of contents: title: Foreword  -- Maja Oeri; title: Foreword  -- Glenn D. Lowry; title: Disappearing Acts Appear  -- Kathy Halbreich; title: Selected Exhibition History  -- Taylor Walsh; title: Deceptive Practice  -- Jeffrey Weiss; title: Positions  -- Ralph Lemon; title: Photography from the Studio to the Moon  -- Roxana Marcoci; title: Resistances  -- Suzanne Hudson; title: White Male/Black Balls  -- Nicholás Guagnini; title: "Here is Every"  -- Liz Kotz; title: Neon Sign, None Sing  -- Glenn Ligon; title: Frames and Repetitions: Neons as Moving Pictures  -- Ute Holl; title: Dilemmas of Visibility  -- Magnus Schaefer; title: "Two Kinds of Infomration"  -- Felicity D. Scott; title: Back in the Saddle  -- Thomas Beard; title: The Space under the Chair  -- Catherine Lord; title: Playing the Game  -- Martina Venanzoni; title: Disquiet Color  -- Briony Fer; title: The Pratfall Effect  -- Rachel Harrison; title: To Come Undone  -- Taylor Walsh; title: Diagramming Nauman in Seven Parts -- Julia Keller.