Winner of the Golden Lion for the Best National Participation at the 53rd International Art Exhibition--La Biennale di Venezia, the exhibition Bruce Nauman: Topological Gardens is celebrated in this photographic documentation of the thematic installation as presented at three sites in Venice: the U.S. Pavilion at the Giardini della Biennale, and two of the city's most esteemed academic institutions, the Università Iuav di Venezia and the Università Ca' Foscari. With a body of work that encompasses video, installation, drawing, sculpture, printmaking, photography, and neon, and that spans from the 1960s to the present day, Bruce Nauman (born 1941) is one of the most innovative artists of his generation. Through Michele Lamanna's stunning series of photographs, commissioned by the Philadelphia Museum of Art, this publication captures the visitor's experience of encountering Nauman's work and coincides with the American premiere of the artist's newest works--Days and Giorni--in Philadelphia.
Since then, Plagens has pursued a real understanding of his friend’s art. The book chronicles Nauman’s process, from the creation of works in his New Mexico studio to the organization, installation, and reception of his exhibitions.
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.
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 his work.
Bruce Nauman: Exhibition Catalogue and Catalogue Raisonné
This collection takes as its starting point the seeming paradox of an artist of so few words who produces an art of so many words.
The volume of texts examines the mirror image and rear-view figures, for example, along with questions of contemporary subject constitution, digital image production and cybernetics.
Introduction / Carlos Basualdo -- Interview with Bruce Nauman / Carlos Basualdo -- Body at work / Erica F. Battle -- Walks in walks out : an appreciation / Caroline Bourgeois
This book looks at this celebrated artist’s work in performance, drawing, video, printmaking and neon installation, in the light of its relationship to psychology.
Bruce Nauman: Going Solo is the first volume in Companion Editions' series of pocketbook readers.
The contributors to this book contend with Nauman's relationship to his practice, the space of the studio, humor, and language.