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Please Pay Attention Please: Bruce Naum... by Nauman, Bruce Paperback / softback

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ISBN
0262640600
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9780262640602
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Paperback
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Please Pay Attention Please: Bruce Nauman's Words: Writings an...
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Nauman, Bruce
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Publisher
MIT Press
ISBN-10
0262640600
ISBN-13
9780262640602
eBay Product ID (ePID)
44190192

Product Key Features

Book Title
Please Pay Attention Please: Bruce Nauman's Words : Writings and Interviews
Number of Pages
426 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2005
Topic
Individual Artists / General, History / Contemporary (1945-), American / General
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Art
Author
Bruce Nauman
Book Series
Writing Art Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback

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0.8 in
Item Weight
33.1 Oz
Item Length
9.1 in
Item Width
7 in

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Trade
LCCN
2002-044426
Reviews
"...(Nauman) remains an enigma - which is exactly why a collection of writings andespecially interviews is so valuable." Nick Stillman The BrooklynRail, Art historian Kraynak has performed a great service in compiling all of the major interviews of the artist...-- Prudence Peiffer -- ...(Nauman) remains an enigma--which is exactly why a collection of writings and especially interviews is so valuable. -- Nick Stillman , The Brooklyn Rail -- This collection offers inquiring minds access to the artist's process. -- THE Magazine - Best Books of 2003 --, "Art historian Kraynak has performed a great service in compiling all of the majorinterviews of the artist..." Prudence Peiffer LibraryJournal, "This collection offers inquiring minds access to the artist's process." THE Magazine - Best Books of 2003, Art historian Kraynak has performed a great service in compiling all of the major interviews of the artist..., "...(Nauman) remains an enigma - which is exactly why a collection of writings and especially interviews is so valuable." Nick Stillman The Brooklyn Rail, "This collection offers inquiring minds access to the artist's process." THEMagazine - Best Books of 2003, ...(Nauman) remains an enigma -- which is exactly why a collection of writings and especially interviews is so valuable., "Art historian Kraynak has performed a great service in compiling all of the major interviews of the artist..." - Prudence Peiffer, Library Journal, ...(Nauman) remains an enigma--which is exactly why a collection of writings and especially interviews is so valuable., "Art historian Kraynak has performed a great service in compiling all of the major interviews of the artist..." Prudence Peiffer Library Journal
Dewey Edition
22
Grade From
College Graduate Student
Dewey Decimal
700.92
Synopsis
The most comprehensive collection to date of the artist Bruce Nauman's writings plus all of his major interviews from 1965 to 2001. Since the 1960s, the artist Bruce Nauman has developed a highly complex and pluralistic oeuvre ranging from discrete sculpture, performance, film, video, and text-based works to elaborate multipart installations incorporating sound, video recording and monitors, and architectural structures. Nauman's work is often interpreted in terms of movements and mediums, including performance, postminimalism, process, and conceptual art, thereby emphasizing its apparent eclecticism. But what is often overlooked is that underlying these seemingly disparate artistic tendencies are conceptual continuities, one of which is an investigation of the nature of language. Unlike many of his contemporaries, Nauman has refrained from participating in the critical discourse surrounding his own work. He has given relatively few interviews over the course of his career and has little to do with the art press or critical establishment. Indeed, he granted Janet Kraynak and The MIT Press almost complete autonomy in the preparation of this volume. In contrast to Nauman's reputation for silence, however, from the beginning of his career, the incorporation of language has been a central feature of his art. 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. Please Pay Attention Please contains all of Nauman's major interviews from 1965 to 2001, as well as a comprehensive body of his writings, including instructions and proposal texts, dialogues transcribed from audio-video works, and prose texts written specifically for installation sculptures. Where relevant, the texts are accompanied by illustrations of the artworks for which they were composed. In the critical essay that serves as the book's introduction, the editor investigates Nauman's art in relation to the linguistic turn in art practices of the 1960s-understanding language through the speech act-and its legacy in contemporary art., The most comprehensive collection to date of the artist Bruce Nauman's writings plus all of his major interviews from 1965 to 2001. Since the 1960s, the artist Bruce Nauman has developed a highly complex and pluralistic oeuvre ranging from discrete sculpture, performance, film, video, and text-based works to elaborate multipart installations incorporating sound, video recording and monitors, and architectural structures. Nauman's work is often interpreted in terms of movements and mediums, including performance, postminimalism, process, and conceptual art, thereby emphasizing its apparent eclecticism. But what is often overlooked is that underlying these seemingly disparate artistic tendencies are conceptual continuities, one of which is an investigation of the nature of language. Unlike many of his contemporaries, Nauman has refrained from participating in the critical discourse surrounding his own work. He has given relatively few interviews over the course of his career and has little to do with the art press or critical establishment. Indeed, he granted Janet Kraynak and The MIT Press almost complete autonomy in the preparation of this volume. In contrast to Nauman's reputation for silence, however, from the beginning of his career, the incorporation of language has been a central feature of his art. 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. Please Pay Attention Please contains all of Nauman's major interviews from 1965 to 2001, as well as a comprehensive body of his writings, including instructions and proposal texts, dialogues transcribed from audio-video works, and prose texts written specifically for installation sculptures. Where relevant, the texts are accompanied by illustrations of the artworks for which they were composed. In the critical essay that serves as the book's introduction, the editor investigates Nauman's art in relation to the linguistic turn in art practices of the 1960s--understanding language through the speech act--and its legacy in contemporary art.
LC Classification Number
N6537.N38A35 2005

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