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	InputPattern: Bruce Nauman: The Viewer as Art
		Nauman attempts to control the meaning of his art by controlling the relationship between the viewer and his art.
		In this way, Nauman creates what he describes as "a participation piece without the participants being able to alter the work."27 It is difficult, if not impossible, to walk through the narrow space of Performance Corridor without feeling "claustrophobic discomfort."28 The viewer/performer in Yellow Room (Triangular) can not escape feeling agitated and uncomfortable.
		A Commentary on the Oeuvre of Bruce Nauman.” in Bruce Nauman, 1972-1981, (Otterlo, Netherlands: Rijksmuseum Kroller-Muller, 1981) pp.
	www.inputpattern.com /portfolio/text/nauman/paper.html (1665 words)

	Rodney Graham and Bruce Nauman: ... the nearest faraway place Essay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		One of a number of works that derive their subjects from Nauman's daily activities as he breeds quarter horses on his property in New Mexico where he took up residence in the late 1970s, it may be compared with Green Horses, a key multimedia installation he made in 1988.
		In contradistinction to Nauman who grounds this enduring trope in the mundane routine tasks still required in ranching today, Graham composes and himself sings his own country-and-western paean sitting by a brook in open virgin prairie as his horse grazes idly nearby.
		It is a maxim Nauman coined long ago in typically ambiguous terms, "The true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths,"6 since tellingly, "revelation" may imply exposure as well as its antipode—disclosure.
	www.diacenter.org /exhibs/grahamnauman/nearest/essay.html (1814 words)

	Bruce Nauman Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Bruce Nauman (born 1941), an American artist whose prime medium was sculpture, worked in various other media including painting, video, and installation throughout his career.
		Nauman was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana on December 6, 1941.
		Nauman's work served as a litmus test for viewers, received either as a pop-psychology experiment or psychological torture, depending on the work and the reaction it elicited.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/bruce-nauman (1612 words)

	Caught in a trap \| \| Guardian Unlimited Arts
		Nauman playing one continuous note on the violin, as he wanders in and out of shot in his studio.
		Nauman, in Slow Angle Walk (Beckett Walk), made in 1968, attempting to maintain a precarious equilibrium as he propels himself, as his preparatory notes detail, "by raising the leg, without bending the knee, until it is at a right angle to the body, then swinging 90 degrees...
		Nauman sets the ties in the ground, checks his work with a spirit level, chainsaws cross-pieces that he uses to wedge the ties solid, vertical and correctly aligned.
	arts.guardian.co.uk /features/story/0,,1781805,00.html (1285 words)

	Art:21 . Bruce Nauman's "The True Artist Helps the World..." \| PBS
		One of Nauman's first pieces, the neon sign "The True Artist Helps the World by Revealing Mystic Truths" was initially displayed in the artist's grocery storefront studio.
		Inspired by a beer sign that belonged to the former San Francisco grocery, Nauman's sign uses a public and familiar means of communication to relate an idea.
		At a time when the young artist was questioning what it means to be an artist (a maker of non-utilitarian objects) and during a historical period fraught with political unrest and injustice (the late 1960s), Nauman's sign is an investigation into the meaning of his own activity.
	www.pbs.org /art21/artists/nauman/card1.html (547 words)

	Bruce Nauman: Theaters of Experience - Deutsche Guggenheim - Absolutearts.com
		Nauman’s interest in art which expresses the passage of time was further influenced by his awareness of contemporaneous avant-garde dance, music, and film.
		Given Nauman’s interest in word play and puns, it is difficult to disassociate his focus on deliberate activity from the word’s root — to act — the dual meaning of which often collapses in Nauman’s work.
		Nauman disappeared from his work and his subsequent series of corridors and rooms became the stage sets upon which he would choreograph the viewer’s activities and responses.
	www.absolutearts.com /artsnews/2003/11/03/31504.html (898 words)

	Inside the mind of Bruce Nauman \| Arts critics \| Guardian Unlimited Arts
		When Nauman announced he was doing a sound piece, I instantly imagined a single voice flooding the hall, saying something terse and threatening, or a discreet whisper emanating from an unexpected corner.
		Nauman's idea sprang, so I understand, from the constant low hum that leaks into the Turbine Hall from the working electricity substation that still occupies part of the south side of the former Bankside Power Station.
		Nauman has been extremely aware of the Turbine Hall as a chamber of sound, and the way noise both floods the space and is dispersed and distributed within it.
	www.guardian.co.uk /arts/critic/feature/0,,1325197,00.html (1456 words)

	'Yes Bruce Nauman' hosted at Zwirner & Wirth \| Art Knowledge News
		At the heart of the broad range of work that Nauman has produced since the 1960s is an investigation of conflicts – thus, he explores the tensions between artist and viewer; between the means and the content of his works; between language and experience, among other themes.
		Among the conceptual concerns played out in Nauman’s work is his use of the body as an object of curiosity: the body is implemented as a physical tool or material with which to make sculpture and performances.
		Nauman mocks the authoritative (and sometimes macho) role of the artist often taken on in the history of art.
	www.artknowledgenews.com /Bruce_Nauman-at-Zwirner_Wirth.html (1233 words)

	Bruce Nauman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		In the late 1960s when a recent art-school graduate, Bruce Nauman began to explore issues relating to the practice of artmaking and to the role of the artist.
		Although Nauman posited in his early work a notion of the artist as visionary or seer-the revealer of "mystic truths"-his conception subsequently darkened into a more authoritarian and implacable paradigm, as evidenced in a series of neon works he made in the 1980s.
		The compass of Nauman's humor is nonetheless as broad as his imagination is protean.
	www.diabeacon.org /exhibs_b/nauman/essay.html (412 words)

	Miami Art Exchange - Bruce Nauman Works with Light
		Although the work of Bruce Nauman at the Museum of Contemporary Art is limited to neon, Nauman's work is visually engaging and provocative.
		Nauman has long been interested in was to "see the artist in direct relation to his ideas, unencumbered by the existence of an object whose physical presence might distract from those ideas.
		Nauman's work has received some of the highest of art-world accolades, including one of the largest retrospectives ever staged at the Museum of Modern Art which placed him in an highest category of artists.
	www.miamiartexchange.com /miami_art_articles/miami_art_articles_2006/bruce_nauman_works_with_light.html (383 words)

	MAM - Exhibition Details
		Bruce Nauman has been recognized since the early 1970s as one of America's most innovative and provocative contemporary artists.
		Nauman's art is motivated by ideas, not an attachment to a particular medium.
		Nauman's work in neon during the 1970s emphasizes the neon as a sign, presenting provocative twists of language.
	www.mam.org /exhibitions/exhibition_details.aspx?ID=65 (892 words)

	David Cohen on Yes Bruce Nauman at Zwirner & Wirth
		Nauman’s status with museum professionals (he is widely considered a genius), even more strange is that so anti-art an artist is also, one has to concede, an artist’s artist.
		Nauman’s first neon works, from 1967, which presented this phrase in blue letters along a red spiral in emulation of a beer logo, and which was displayed in the window of his former grocery store studio in San Francisco.
		Nauman was of the same generation as the minimalists, and while his own art is often reductive, he eschews any of the spiritual or aesthetic connotations of minimal art, often actively mocking such pretentions.
	www.artcritical.com /DavidCohen/SUN159.htm (877 words)

	Revealing light Bruce Nauman illuminates the art world \| Vital Source Magazine, Milwaukee WI
		Bruce Nauman has spent his life and career bending artistic conventions, one of the few living artists successful at avoiding labels.
		Nauman originally studied painting, but felt limited in the medium�s ability to adequately subvert what he saw as artistic preconceptions and order, and quickly abandoned it.
		Nauman�s first exhibit in the state of Wisconsin, it will feature neon pieces created between 1965 and 1985, as well as two full-room installations, all designed to playfully raise questions, inspire reevaluation and incite debate.
	www.vitalsourcemag.com /index.php/magazine/article/revealing-light-bruce-nauman-illuminates-the-art-world (649 words)

	Art:21 . Bruce Nauman . Biography . Documentary Film \| PBS
		Born in 1941 in Fort Wayne, Indiana, Bruce Nauman has been recognized since the early 1970s as one of the most innovative and provocative of America’s contemporary artists.
		Nauman finds inspiration in the activities, speech, and materials of everyday life.
		A survey of his diverse output demonstrates the alternately political, prosaic, spiritual, and crass methods by which Nauman examines life in all its gory details, mapping the human arc between life and death.
	www.pbs.org /art21/artists/nauman (81 words)

	Bruce Nauman Online
		Bruce Nauman in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
		Bruce Nauman copyright requests handled by the Artists Rights Society.
		All images and text on this Bruce Nauman page are copyright 1999-2005 by John Malyon/Artcyclopedia, unless otherwise noted.
	www.artcyclopedia.com /artists/nauman_bruce.html (340 words)

	Bruce Nauman : "Elusive Signs" at Museum of Contemporary Art \| Art Knowledge News
		Elusive Signs: Bruce Nauman Works with Light traces Nauman’s use of light as a medium that is both sensual and contemplative while aggressively penetrating the environment with its message and imagery.
		Nauman varies his artistic process to meet the demands of his ideas, using a variety of media.
		Nauman, a Wisconsin native who lives in New Mexico, first worked with light in the mid-1960s at which time he became intrigued with the neon advertising signs on the streets outside his studio.
	www.artknowledgenews.com /Bruce_Nauman-at-MOCA.html (729 words)

	CIPRINA: Bruce Nauman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		NAUMAN: When I was making that piece originally and then thinking about it later, people, a lot of people, were thinking about how to structure time.
		NAUMAN: This is a completely different situation where, again, even though this is a new work, or a newish work, it comes from some thoughts about earlier work where you could control the length of the film or video tape or activity by having a specific job.
		NAUMAN: In this case we're building a corner to stretch a fence and hang a gate.
	pquintas.typepad.com /ciprina/2006/05/bruce_nauman.html (1399 words)

	XXIV Bienal - Bruce Nauman
		Bruce Nauman's philosophical framework is of our era, not that of Pascal's wager that state of grace might exist but can never be achieved through reason or Montaigne's critical appreciation of man's imperfections that give rise to the "noble savage" who eats his fellows but does so with exemplary dignity.
		The work's final version, where the letters that had composed it were dumped on the floor and scrambled, seemingly placed the sentence's potential for meaning forever out of reach, yet somehow, knowing the significance these verbal shards once had, they continue to emit a conceptual aura.
		The men and women who populate these infernal images would seem to be beyond the help of the "true artist," and given the intensity with which Nauman describes their routine degradations-an intensity fired by identification with them-one suspects that the "true artist" is, in fact, among the damned.
	www1.uol.com.br /bienal/24bienal/nuh/inuhnauman02a.htm (866 words)

	Guggenheim Museum - Singular Forms
		Influenced by experimental and what is now termed "Minimal" dance, music, and film, Bruce Nauman, like many of his peers in the 1960s, expanded artistic practice and its reception by introducing performance strategies into his work.
		Nauman moved away from static, self-contained art objects to create an art of real experience by featuring his own body as sculptural material.
		Seen from the side and with his head cropped out of the frame, Nauman becomes an anonymous surrogate for the viewer, who is drawn into the rhythm and physical tension of the work.
	www.guggenheim.org /exhibitions/singular_forms/highlights_6a.html (395 words)

	Bruce Nauman - Search Results - MSN Encarta
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	encarta.msn.com /Bruce_Nauman.html (109 words)

	Bruce Nauman - Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg ArtForum - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Nauman's art is one that can aloofly ignore the spectator (at the very least creating a sense of total detachment), reject the viewer outright by shouting at him or her, or demand attention while pointedly insulting him or her.
		In this regard, Robert Pincus-Witten's article "Bruce Nauman: Another Kind of Reasoning" (published in Artforum in February 1972), which reproached the artist for turning away from the wordplay featured in his earlier works toward "phenomenological," indeed "behaviorist," pieces, should be reread in light of the past two and a half decades of Nauman's production.
		That is, Nauman did not so much abandon the Duchampian strategy of disorienting the spectator as transport it to another realm, conferring upon it a new breadth.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0268/is_n3_v36/ai_20381893 (1043 words)

	Art: Bruce Nauman Retrospective - New York Times
		LEAD: IN the retrospective of his drawings at the New Museum, the sculptor Bruce Nauman comes across as the complete Post-Minimalist artist, an exemplary representative of the almost frenzied experimentation that took hold of art, and especially sculpture, in the late 1960's and early 70's.
		IN the retrospective of his drawings at the New Museum, the sculptor Bruce Nauman comes across as the complete Post-Minimalist artist, an exemplary representative of the almost frenzied experimentation that took hold of art, and especially sculpture, in the late 1960's and early 70's.
		Nauman is guided by a pronounced taste for the unexpected transformation, for turning things inside out or upside down so that they become something else.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE4D71F38F933A05753C1A961948260&sec=&pagewanted=all (1220 words)

	Amazon.fr : Please Pay Attention Please: Bruce Nauman's Words : Writings And Interviews: Livres en anglais: Bruce ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Nauman's eerily intuitive way of creating sophisticated, intellectually angular art out of simple gestures-a 10-minute film called "Bouncing Two Balls between the Floor and Ceiling with Changing Rhythms," for example, in which the artist does just that-builds fascination out of repetition's blandness.
		Nauman courts extreme, even clinical, thinking, if only as a way to achieve practical and reliable experiences in art, as when Nauman comments on his use of puns: "I think humor is used a lot of the time to keep people from getting too close.
		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.
	www.amazon.fr /Please-Pay-Attention-Writings-Interviews/dp/0262640600 (738 words)

	Bruce Nauman: Mapping the studio
		This exhibition brings together two distinct but related bodies of video work by Bruce Nauman that investigate the role of the artist and the possibilities of artistic creation within the confines of the studio environment.
		In the first group of seven works, created between 1968 and 1973, the figure of Nauman is central, and the artist's body becomes the primary tool, manipulated as if it is a sculptural material.
		This work, filmed in Nauman's studio in Galisteo, New Mexico, registers the downtime of the creative process – the times in which the muse refuses to appear, and in which very little happens.
	www.ngv.vic.gov.au /nauman (366 words)

	Bruce Nauman: Mapping the Studio I Press Release (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Born in 1941 in Fort Wayne, Indiana, Nauman received a BS at the University of Wisconsin and an MFA from the University of California at Davis.
		Nauman's most recent retrospective exhibition, organized by the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, in association with the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., in 1994, traveled to other museums in Europe and the United States, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
		Nauman currently lives and works in Galisteo, New Mexico, where he moved in 1979, developing a professional interest in horse breeding and training.
	www.diacenter.org /dia/press/nauman.html (653 words)

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