Elusive Signs: Bruce Nauman Works with Light. Exhibition Catalog, Indianapolis Museum of Art, 2006
by Ketner II, Joseph
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MIT Press, 2006. Paperback. Very Good. 11x9x0. Softcover book, neither ex-library nor marked as a remainder. Binding is strong and all leaves are in place. Text is free of markings and highlighting; no dog-ears. Exterior has light wear. 96 pp., ill. Images of nearly all Bruce Nauman's signs and room installation using neon and fluorescent light, from Window or Wall Sign (1967) to the monumental One Hundred Live and Die (1984), accompanied by interpretive essays. Intrigued and inspired by the neon beer signs on shopfronts in his San Francisco neighborhood, Bruce Nauman created his first neon piece, Window or Wall Sign, in 1967. He wanted, he said, to achieve "an art that would kind of disappearâthat was supposed to not quite look like art." Light offered Nauman a medium both elusive and effervescent, but one that could also aggressively convey a message. Over the first three decades of his career, Nauman used the medium of light to explore the twists and turns of perception, logic, and meaning with the earnest playfulness that characterizes all his art. Elusive Signs focuses on the discrete body of Nauman's work that uses neon and fluorescent light in signs and room installations, and includes images of nearly all Nauman's work with light. After Window or Wall Sign, Nauman embarked on a series of neons that grappled with the semiotics of body and identity, and with My Name as Though it Were Written on the Surface of the Moon (1968), he forces the viewer to contemplate the role of naming in forming identity. Languageâsigns and symbolsâplays an important role in Nauman's art. His later neon works emphasize the neon as a sign, presenting provocative twists of language and offering harsh and humorous sociopolitical commentary in such pieces as Run from Fear, Fun from Rear (1972). This series culminates in the monumental, billboard-size One Hundred Live and Die (1984), which employs overwhelming scale to bombard the viewer with sardonic aphorisms. In incisive essays that accompany the images of Nauman's work, Joseph Ketner II of the Milwaukee Art Museum (which originated the exhibit this book accompanies) and critics Janet Kraynak and Gregory Volk analyze the works in light both as a body of work and as an access point to Nauman's entire career. Heavy books or multi-volume sets will require additional postage. Send me a message before purchase if you want a quote; otherwise, I will contact you after purchase with the final shipping price. Ships from USA.
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- Title
- Elusive Signs: Bruce Nauman Works with Light. Exhibition Catalog, Indianapolis Museum of Art, 2006
- Author
- Ketner II, Joseph
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
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- ISBN 10
- 0944110835
- ISBN 13
- 9780944110836
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- MIT Press
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Date Published
- 2006
- Size
- 11x9x0
- X weight
- 32 oz
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