Bruce Nauman; Editor: Morgan, Robert C.; Author: Nauman, Bruce; Paperback

Editor: Morgan, Robert C.; Author: Nauman, Bruce
PAJ Books (Paperback); Paperback; 20 Halftones
384 pages
Published: June 2002
The Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN: 0801869064

One of America's most important artists, Bruce Nauman has worked in a dazzling variety of media since the mid- 1960s: sculpture, photography, performance, installation, sound, holography, film, and video. What has been a constant throughout his career, however, is his persistence in exploring both art as an investigation of the self and the power of language to define that self.The latest volume in the acclaimed Art + Performance series is the first book to combine the key critical writings on Nauman with the artist's own writings and interviews with him, as well as images of hiswork. Bruce Nauman offers a multifaceted portrait of an artist whose determination to experiment with style and form has created a body of work as eclectic and perhaps more influential than that of anWorking 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 that self. This book combines writings on Nauman with the artist's own writings and interviews with him.