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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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49582043267345,"sku":"GOR007874793","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52627235406097,"sku":"NLS9780262640602","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0262640600.jpg?v=1751070436"},{"product_id":"please-pay-attention-please-book-bruce-nauman-9780262140829","title":"Please Pay Attention Please","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe most comprehensive collection to date of the artist Bruce Nauman's writings plus all of his major interviews from 1965 to 2001.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince 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. 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The work’s cool spiral letters traced the claim, at once ironic and heartfelt: “The true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths.” Questioning the role of the spectator and channeling Nauman’s inquisitive attitude, this book features contributions by Judith Barry, William Kentridge, David Levine, Gedi Sibony, Gary Simmons, Charline von Heyl and Mark Wallinger.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50467438559505,"sku":"CIN0944521878VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51009598095633,"sku":"NIN9780944521878","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52141030736145,"sku":"NLS9780944521878","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0944521878.jpg?v=1750947952"},{"product_id":"bruce-nauman-neons-corridors-rooms-book-bruce-nauman-9791254630136","title":"Bruce Nauman: Neons Corridors Rooms","description":"New spatial and architectural works from the influential American multimedia pioneer  Published in conjunction with the exhibition at Pirelli HangarBicocca in Milan, this monograph presents the most up-to-date compilation of the spatial and architectural works of New Mexico–based artist Bruce Nauman (born 1941). Through his neons, corridors and room installations, Nauman accentuates the contrast between the perceptual and physical experience of space. Perception itself can be interpreted as the subject matter of his work; the aesthetic experience of entering a narrow corridor or an empty room flooded with neon light supersedes the art “objects” in the viewer’s experience. The volume includes newly commissioned essays on Nauman's conceptual developments and formal variations by scholars, conservators and curators such as Joan Simon, Francesca Esmay and Gloria Sutton, and a text by the exhibition curators. Alongside rich photographic documentation of the show, the publication also features entries for the 30 works on display written by researchers from international institutions.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":50560359170321,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50560359334161,"sku":"GOR013999720","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53635634856209,"sku":"NLS9791254630136","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/B09WHFGKMB.jpg?v=1751418229"},{"product_id":"on-with-book-bruce-nauman-9783954766475","title":"ON\/WITH","description":"A Pioneer of Media ArtThe American Bruce Nauman (b. Fort Wayne, US, 1941; lives and works in New Mexico, US) ranks among the preeminent visual artists of our time. For six decades, he has worked in an extraordinarily broad range of media, shattering the bounds of established genres and spearheading new ones along the way. His expanded conception of art encompasses wax casts, neon signs, physical contortions, word play, immersive audio and video environments, and the studio as a site of exploration. Nauman, who came of age amid the political and social upheavals of the 1960s, never abided by any rigid distinctions in art; instead remaining to this day, as he puts it, open to \"the possibilities of what art can be.\" Above all, Nauman's work seduces and thrills viewers through a process-based approach which melds bodily experience with a wide variety of art forms.The publication enhances the pioneering artist's largest survey exhibition in Asia to date, at Tai Kwun Contemporary in Hong Kong, with its multifaceted selection by the editors who have compiled interviews on and with the artist and his colleagues. Cao Fei, Anne Imhof, Andrea Lissoni and Nicholas Serota, Meredith Monk, Philippe Parreno, Paul Pfeiffer, Robert Storr, Willoughby Sharp, Zhang Peili, and Samson Young among other key contributors are drawing historical connections and opening up fresh perspectives on Nauman's oeuvre. Texts by the exhibition co-curators Carlos Basualdo, Caroline Bourgeois, Pi Li, and the Tai Kwun Contemporary team, are complemented by introductions to historic interviews by Joan Simon, as well as an array of supporting documentation and images offering new insight into Nauman's enduring relevance amidst a changing media landscape.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":50673649877265,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":50673650729233,"sku":"NGR9783954766475","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/3954766477.jpg?v=1779962405"},{"product_id":"bruce-nauman-disappearing-acts-book-bruce-nauman-9781633450318","title":"Bruce Nauman: Disappearing Acts","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWith a magician's sleight of hand, Nauman's art makes disappearance visible\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt 76 years old, Bruce Nauman is widely acknowledged as a central figure in contemporary art whose stringent questioning of values such as good and bad remains urgent today. 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