Bruce Nauman : disappearing acts / edited by Kathy Halbreich and four others

Smithsonian Libraries and Archives

Object Details

editor
Halbreich, Kathy
host institution
Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
Schaulager (Art museum : Münchenstein, Switzerland)
P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center.
Laurenz-Stiftung
Subject
Nauman, Bruce 1941-
Nauman, Bruce 1941- Criticism and interpretation
Nauman, Bruce 1941- Themes, motives
"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.
Contents
Foreword / Maja Oeri -- Foreword / Glenn D. Lowry -- Disappearing Acts Appear / Kathy Halbreich -- Selected Exhibition History / Taylor Walsh -- Deceptive Practice / Jeffrey Weiss -- Positions / Ralph Lemon -- Photography from the Studio to the Moon / Roxana Marcoci -- Resistances / Suzanne Hudson -- White Male/Black Balls / Nicolás Guagnini -- "Here is Every" / Liz Kotz -- Neon Sign, None Sing / Glenn Ligon -- Frames and Repetitions: Neons as Moving Pictures / Ute Holl -- Dilemmas of Visibility / Magnus Schaefer -- "Two Kinds of Information" / Felicity D. Scott -- Back in the Saddle / Thomas Beard -- The Space under the Chair / Catherine Lord -- Playing the Game / Martina Venanzoni -- Disquiet Color / Briony Fer -- The Pratfall Effect / Rachel Harrison -- To Come Undone / Taylor Walsh -- Diagramming Nauman in Seven Parts / Julia Keller
Summary
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 This richly illustrated catalogue, which includes rare and previously unpublished images, offers a comprehensive view of the artist's work in all media --including drawings; early fiberglass sculptures; sound environments; architecturally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. --Publisher's description, lower jacket.
2018
20th century
21st century
Type
Exhibitions
Criticism, interpretation, etc
Essays
Exhibition catalogs
Photobooks
Physical description
355 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 28 cm
Place
United States
Title
Disappearing acts
Smithsonian Libraries
Topic
Postmodernism
Process art
Neon lighting in art
Neon sculpture
Video art
Installations (Art)
Sculpture, Abstract
Male artists
Record ID
siris_sil_1095607
Metadata Usage (text)
CC0