Stierli

　　A comprehensive overview of Bruce Nauman’s career, spanning more than fifty years of work in all media.

　　Bruce Nauman is widely acknowledged as a central figure in contemporary art and one of the most influential artists of his time. Throughout his career, Nauman has continuously explored how ways of understanding ourselves in the world are structured by our phenomenological and psychological experiences of time, space, sound, movement and architecture, as well as by power relations and language. For over fifty years he has invigorated his work by questioning the philosophical underpinnings that define and give shape to it. This richly illustrated catalogue offers a comprehensive view of Nauman’s career, spanning more than fifty years of work in all media: from his early fibreglass sculptures and drawings to his most recent video and sound pieces. A wide range of authors – curators, artists and historians of art, architecture and film – pay particular attention to series and themes that have thus far been neglected, such as Nauman’s interest in architectural models or the role of color in his work. An introductory essay explores how Nauman questions what it means to be an artist through acts of disappearance, withdrawal and deflection. Seventeen shorter essays focus on particular ideas, images, or mediums, and include the first essay on Nauman as a photographer in the 1960s and beyond, and the first detailed treatment on the role of color in his oeuvre. An illustrated exhibition history featuring a number of rare or previously unpublished images rounds out the volume.