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Please Pay Attention Please: Bruce Nauman's Words - Writings and Interviews (Paperback, New Ed)
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Please Pay Attention Please: Bruce Nauman's Words - Writings and Interviews (Paperback, New Ed)
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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.
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