Bruce Nauman: A Contemporary

The publication "Bruce Nauman: A Contemporary" poses the question of
Nauman's contemporaneity and situates his oeuvre in the context of artistic
positions and art theoretical discourses from the last decades. Six
in-depth essays by renowned authors illuminate Nauman's work, such as
in regard to its inherent humour or the practice of endless repetition. 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. Theories of labour and globalisation
are discussed in reference to Nauman's creative output, as well as
the connections between Nauman's work and models of behaviourism,
software and computer theory, or topology. The various essays consider
Nauman's oeuvre in relation to diverse artistic positions such as those of
Ed Atkins, Erwin Wurm, Francis Alÿs, Fischli / Weiss, Dara Birnbaum,
Yvonne Rainer or René Magritte. In so doing, the volume of texts seeks to
counter the tendency to cast the artist as an outstanding solitary figure
of postmodernism and opens up manifold references

Product details

• Assisted by: Eva Ehninger (Editor)
• Publisher: König, Walther
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2018
• No. of pages: 240
• Illustrations: Illustrated in colour and black and white throughout
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Antiques; Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Plastic arts