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	• Bruce Nauman: Theaters Of Experience Christine Hoffmann, Bruce Nauman Guggenheim Museum, 2003 - 72 pages average customer review:based on 1 review view larger image
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i took a chance and ordered two books on an artist i'd barely heard of before but he intrigued me in the little bit of info i knew. this book looks incredibly informativ and the art very interesting. i just got it and have not fully read it yet. it covers a wide range of Bruce Nauman's work, which i really appreciate.

One of the most significant, funny, and nails-on-a-chalkboard jarring artists of the second half of the 20th century, Bruce Nauman has expanded the scope of traditional art practice and influenced a generation of artists. He has made himself into a fountain (one upping Marcel Duchamp?), cast the space under a chair, fashioned a screeching carousel of carcass-like parts, reinvented the neon sign as a contemporary haiku, and, most recently, recorded the dullness of his studio in real time. His ongoing investigation of our most basic physical, emotional, and psychological states has been literally experienced by each of his viewers. Bruce Nauman: Theaters of Experience is a focused selection of works in a range of media, including sculpture, video, holograms, neon, and architectural installations, which examine the artist's use of performance devices as a conduit for heightened self-awareness for both artist and audience. Featuring works from the Guggenheim Panza Collection, augmented with loans from several German collections, the exhibition and catalogue trace the theatrical elements in Nauman's oeuvre, as well as his manipulation of the performer-spectator roles.

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