Bibliography and Outline for oral presentation

   


Bruce Nauman,


                    Bruce Nauman is an inspiring American Artist that is known for creating his unique styles of  sculpture, photography, neon, video drawing and performance. Nauman was born on December 6, 1941 in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Nauman studied mathematics and physics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison (1960–64), and art with at the University of California, Davis (1965–6). In 1964 he gave up painting to dedicate himself to sculpture, performance and cinema collaborations with William Allan and Robert Nelson. He worked as an assistant to Wayne Thiebaud. Upon graduation (MFA, 1966), he taught at the San Francisco Art Institute from 1966 to 1968, and at the University of California at Irvine in 1970. In 1968 he met the singer and performance artist Meredith Monk and signed with the dealer Leo Castelli. Nauman further moved to Pecos, New Mexico. In 1989, he established a home and studio in Galisteo, New Mexico, where he continues to work and live along with his wife, the painter Susan Rothenberg. Nauman also seems to be fascinated by the nature of communication and language’s inherent problems, as well as the role of the artist as supposed communicator and manipulator of visual symbols. Since the mid-1980s, primarily working with sculpture and video, Nauman has developed disturbing psychological and physical themes incorporating images of animal and human body parts. In 1988, after a hiatus of nearly two decades focused on time-based media, he resumed his work with cast objects. One of his best-known pieces from this period is "Window or Wall Sign," a neon spiral with the words "The true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths." About this time he began experimenting with sound in spaces and soon embarked on using holography. Gradually, Nauman built a reputation as an exciting new experimental artist.

Outline:

I will introduce 5 slides of Bruce Nauman works of art:

1)Good Boy Bad Boy, 19852) Learned Helplessness in Rats, 19883) Studies for Holograms (a-e), 19704)Animal Pyramid, 1989

5)Double Poke in the Eye II, 1985